bonarda

[Innkeeper]

Bonarda is an insignificant grape from the Piedmont Region of Italy. It is right up there with Pelaverga, Croatina, and Vespolina. For some reason the folks in Argentina have shown some enthusiasm about it. We recently had an inexpensive Sangiovese-Bonarda from there. They didn't say what the proportion of each was, but even a 10% shot of Sangiovese should be able to liven up the dullest counterpart. This wine, that cost a whopping $5.00, was not very interesting.

Having said that, one of our more respected members, Woodman had this to say about the Alamos Bonarda three years ago: http://www.wines.com/ubb2/Forum23/HTML/000158.html But, don't have any info about the Altos.