Great QPR from Sicily

[Innkeeper]

1999 Cantina Valle dell'Acte "Milaro" Rosso, Sicilia ($9.99 WineExpo). A very nice, but very different bottle of juice. It is made entirely from the Nero d'Avola grape. Hawkins defines the grape thusly, "Used as one of the wines blended into a well-regarded Sicilian red wine with complex aromas capable of aging well." Well it does good straight too! Inky black color, with blackberries and plums on the nose and tongue tip. Lots of earth, spice, and exotic complexity travels with the medium-full body across one's palate. A jazzy finish includes a tannic tingling under the inside of the bottom lip. Though this may alarm some; it delighted us. Had promised Mother a simple dinner of burgers and Beaujolais on the way home from a long anniversary weekend on Grand Manan, and dragged this baby out instead. She was not disappointed. Try it, you'll like it; except, of course, Bucko. It's Italian.




[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 08-28-2001).]