Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Another great wine from Italy's northern mountains

I'm partial to mountain wines.  There, I said it.  Tonight we pulled a wine produced from Fumin from the Valle d'Aoste.  It was again delightful, working very well with a pasta with cherry tomatoes, a fresh market Aleppo pepper, tons of garlic and plenty of olive oil.  This was again a fresh, acidic wine with ample minerality and great fruit. No one felt the need to put this in copious amounts of wood barrels, so it spoke about the grape and soils and the climate.  A wine with a lot of floral notes of lavender and violet, red and blue fruit, black pepper, a bit of allspice and other warm spices on the nose, and a similar palate.  There are hints of smoke, too - but none of the spice or smoke came from barrel.  There is so much great complexity gong on here - yet it doesn't demand you pay it immense attention - it's very quaffable to boot. This would do poorly in the average wine tasting - because it is subtle - but the complexity should not be overlooked.  Oh, and did I mention it's made by a cooperative - the Onze Communes?  So, it's also a relative value - ~$20.  What a fun wine.

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