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Marotti Campi Salmariano Verdicchio dei Castelli Di Jesi Classico Riserva 2003 NZD $24.95 NZD $22.95
Intensely Flavoured Dry White from the Marches
Marotti Campi vineyard is based in the vicinity of Morro D'Alba , an ancient village in the Marches region , north of Ancona. Grapes have been grown here for centuries, in the centre of the DOC areas of Lacrima di Morro D'Alba and Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi .The Marotti Campi family has owned land here since the 19th century. They have approximately 54 hectares of vines surrounding the family villa consisting of 23 hectares of Lacrima, 23 of Vedicchio and 8 of "international" varietals. All the grapes are harvested by hand. To emphasize their link to the land their wines are named after old XI century sites.
Salmariano is named after the XI century castrum ( castle) built at the boundary of the company's vineyard. The grapes are harvested late for maximum ripeness and aged partly in small oak barriques for 12 months. This is a superb example of the verdicchio grape at its best.It is a bold, nutty dry white with hints of butterscotch and oak. A very exciting wine.
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Pierpaolo Pecorari Sauvignon 2005
NZD $28.95
Sauvignon Blanc at its Finest
What a world away from New Zealand sauvignon blanc this is. For a start, pretty well all NZ sauvignons at 4 years of age will be well past their best, if not having fallen apart comepletely. This wine is fresh and alive, weighty, fruit driven, powerful wine with none of the grassy, acidic overtones characteristic of NZ sauvignon. In fact it is much more like a French sauvignon (particularly Sancerre), albeit perhaps a little fruitier than would be typical. All in all, a superb wine and, comparing it to its French counterparts again, very well priced at $28.95. It will continue to live for some time yet, developing some lovely honeyed/butterscotch characters over the next couple of years.
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Pierpaolo Pecorari Selezione Altis Traminer Aromatico 2007
NZD $35.00
Gewurztraminer Italian Style
Tucked up on the border with Slovenia in the far north east corner of Italy, Pecorari makes tiny quantities of idiosyncratic and powerfully impressive wines. Only a dozen bottles of this wine made it to this country. It is quite dry, with a fruit power that is currently largely masked by its youthfulness. If you can put this away for three or four years you will be rewarded with something exceptional. A rare and beautiful wine.
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Vie di Romans Chardonnay 2005
NZD $57.95
World Class Chardonnay from Italy
Vie di Romans has a forty hectare vineyard planted in chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio and a number of local varieties. They have very successfully married traditional winemaking with a state-of-the-art facility. This chardonnay is a fabulous wine, with an almost perfect combination of old world depth and complexity and new world fruit. Fully barrel fermented and having undergone 100% malolactic fermentation this is a powerful wine that is still very young (the winery itself suggests a cellaring time of 8 - 15 years). I could wax on about the rich medley of flavours, but the most remarkable thing is the length (the amount of time the flavour lasts in your mouth after swallowing). It's a wine you certainly can't drink very fast. It's in a different league to any New World chardonnay I've tried and $57.95 is a veritable bargain for the experience it provides.
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I personally select and taste every wine I recommend ~ if you don't like it, please send it back to me and I will either replace it with something more suitable to your taste or issue you a full refund.
Ben Naden