This past month I started featuring
Italian wine words for those of you to start learning some of the
Italian language in the wine industry. I started doing Italian
Wine Word Wednesday that I'll feature on my social media and
occasionally a blog post if it falls on a Wednesday. Since it's
summer time and it's the perfect time of year to drink rose' (but not
the only time of year don't forget) I figured this week we'll feature
the word crisp as you'll find rose' to be potentially be crisp, clean
and refreshing. It's perfect as well for all your Italian white
grapes and wines too!
Crisp = fresco
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| View from Cortona, Tuscany ~ By MojoBaron |
This week I attended a wine tasting and rose' seemed to be the hit
of the night for all the vendors. The rose' I'm sharing I
thought was unique in the fact that you don't often see syrah from
Italy nevermind a syrah rose'. I've featured this producer before,
Fabrizio Dionisio, but I sampled the 2013 Fabrizio Dionisio Rosa
del Castago syrah I.G.T. from Cortona, Tuscany. This wine is
100% syrah that is gently crushed and the free run juice ferments in
stainless steel for about 15 days at low temps. Light salmon in
color and dry, it has a good medium body with notes of strawberry and
citrus that has a refreshing mouthwatering acidity that finished
clean and fresco!
I find rose to be such a versatile wine and can pair especially with
many of your summer dishes, but maybe not as much your hearty winter
fare. It still holds a place on the table year round to serve as an
accompaniment to many appetizers as well as dishes to include pasta,
pizza, chicken and pork dishes.
I'll end in a perfect quote from Fabrizio Dionisio's site quoted by
Fabrizio Dionisio himself:
“I
like to create, every year, real bottles of terroir which can
accurately and sincerely express that particular vintage. I like to
create a wine that can tell the autumn rain, the winter frost, the
summer hot days and cool nights, the colours, the sounds and the
smells of that very vintage with its unique and unrepeatable
characteristics. That’s the way in which our Syrah of Cortona is
created in our vineyards, following the rhythms of nature.”
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