WTN: Dino Torti CastelRotto Barbera 2001 (Lombardy)
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:06 amTonight I had a few friends over and we had some great wine and food. I made the meatloaf from the Nov. 11 2004 Foodletter, it was awesome! I had two people eating meatloaf (and loving it) that swore they had never eaten it before and enoyed it. I was pleased.
To go along with that we had this quite memorable wine:
Dino Torti CastelRotto Barbera 2001 Oltrep Pavese DOC, $ 17.99
The wine is a clear shimmering garnett red with a very slight orange tint to it. The nose gives off aromas of spicy candy violets with a wonderful earthy undertone. This reminds me of the other wines from Lombardy I have drunk. The tastes follow the nose on the palate, though the earth takes a more forward role. It is crisp and light bodied with a wonderfuly earthy finish. The nose becomes a little
too candied as the wine reacted with the air, but this was none the less one of the most memborable wines I've had in the past few weeks.
To go along with that we had this quite memorable wine:
Dino Torti CastelRotto Barbera 2001 Oltrep Pavese DOC, $ 17.99
The wine is a clear shimmering garnett red with a very slight orange tint to it. The nose gives off aromas of spicy candy violets with a wonderful earthy undertone. This reminds me of the other wines from Lombardy I have drunk. The tastes follow the nose on the palate, though the earth takes a more forward role. It is crisp and light bodied with a wonderfuly earthy finish. The nose becomes a little
too candied as the wine reacted with the air, but this was none the less one of the most memborable wines I've had in the past few weeks.