Good Things From Italy - Le Cose Buone d'Italia

White wine grapes produced with "Passerina" from yellowish light and fruity taste that recalls the flower of acacia, has a taste crisp and dry with a persistent aftertaste, ideal union with fish and the first Mediterranean cuisine.

Production area: Born in the hills of Piceno where the grape Passerina represents history and tradition.

Grape: 100% Passerina.

Organoleptic characteristics: The colour is light yellow with green reflections. Fresh smell, fruity, floral and herbaceous have a clear hint of acacia flower, but also exotic fruit and honey. The taste is just as crisp, with hints of green apple. At the same time it is dry and characterized by obvious hints minerals. The aftertaste is bitter but with spicy notes, very pleasant and persistent. High levels of acidity. Overall wine is an intense, full-bodied, aromatic.

Service: Serve tulips flared at a temperature of 8-10 ° C.

Pairing: A fresh and dry wine that perfectly pair with the Adriatic coastal cuisine based on fish ans ses food. Mediterranean cuisine: light sauces pasta dishes enriched with seasonal vegetables.

This wine springs from the soils of the Marche region of Italy, province of Ancona, and most precisely, the little town of Morro d’Alba. Just in this place, and in a few surrounding hamlets, grows one of Italy’s, and indeed the world’s most distinctive grapes: Lacrima (di Morro d’Alba). Those with some familiarity with Latin-rooted languages might understand “Lacrima” as “tear”, and they’d be right. The deeply colored variety is so named because its very thin skins, that upon reaching full ripening, often split, and spill their stained fructose “tears”. A pity for the grower who has to learn how to get his fruit in preferably just before the bawling starts, but those who do manage it give the drinker a rare pleasure...

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Rosso Piceno is the largest AOC of the Marche region of central, coastal Italy. By regulation the wine must be 65% sangiovese – after that you can throw pretty much anything else you like into it. I guess the rosso is indicative that this is red wine – not chardonnay!

I drank it in the evening whilst prepping a really delicious 3 meat Bolognese. I like having a wine from the country whose food I am cooking. Spag Bog needs an Italian wine. I had the Fattoria laying around so out popped the cork. I love remembering why I bought the wine for the store in the first place. Memories came back to. The wine is rich without being OTT. Lots of good red and black fruit, nothing damaging, no high acidity, no flawed flavors, just pure wine. Color was garnet and clear, aromas were sweet nothing excessive, and the flavor really easy.

You can’t drink heavy wine every night, sometimes not at all, and I get so much more excited over drinking a cheapy like this when everything, including the price, comes together. Loved it, loved the Spag Bog.

Producer: Fattoria Laila
Vintage: 2009
Varietal: Sangiovese/Montepulciano
Country: Italy
Region: Marche
Production: I would guess quite large
Availability: Yes. $14.00 pb. $11.90 pb on a case