help! trying to ID a dessert wine

[rach4]

If anyone could help me name this wine I would be appreciative (and impressed!). I have had it a couple times at restaurants and it is a red Italian dessert wine, almost cloying sweetness, with a very distinctive (and strong) scent of red roses.

I'm no wine expert but if I had to describe the flavor I would say fruity/honey tones.

That's about all the information I have on it. It isn't a terribly expensive wine - I want to say I paid $10-12 a glass in a restaurant. Thanks in advance for your help!

Rachael

[mrdutton]

Ten to twelve dollars a glass.

That is not an inexpensive wine, in my humble opinion.

[This message has been edited by mrdutton (edited 02-17-2003).]

[Kcwhippet]

I would have said Vin Santo, but you said it's red.

[Thomas]

It might be one of those Amaro dessert products, which are quite high in alcohol. Maybe Roberto has a better idea. Where is Roberto anyway?

[hotwine]

I don't think he's come up for air yet.

[winoweenie]

He's had air ...it's just he hasn't regained control of his faculties yet. ww

[scimmiatinit]

Aleatico... maybe from Puglia (Candido)
or other producers from Tuscany or Lazio...

Sagrantino di Montefalco Passito but it is usually very very expensive...

There are also other italian red dessert wines but they are usually very rare ...

Ciao
Fabio

[scimmiatinit]

Recioto della Valpolicella... still very very expensive...

Brachetto passito (Piedmont) or Piedirosso passito (Campania) or some Malvasia Nera and Primitivo (Puglia)...

I don't know

Ciao again
Fabio

[stevebody]

A company called Pervini recently dumped a '91 Late Harvest Primitivo here in Seattle. It wound up selling for $3.99 a bottle and I managed to get hold of a case of it. I suspecdt the resason it waqs dumped was because, as I've opened successive bottles of it, I've found that some were wonderfully off-dry and had dazzling Zin flavors while some were icky sweet and smelled - hmmm - of roses. Don't know if this is your wine but the description sounded really familiar. I know Pervini wines show up a whole lot more east of WA and it wouldn't surprise me to think that a lot of restauranteurs (cheap bastards that we are) snapped them up. Suggestion: call the restaurant and ask them.

[Botafogo]

Moscato Rosa from Trentino or Alto Adige would be my first bet.

Roberto

[Thomas]

Well rach4, you half a dozen to choose from--try them all and see which one it was...