For February, we've selected a couple of superb wines from our Alto Adige range from northern Italy - a stunning Sauvignon Blanc from Peter Dipoli, one of the regions's best producers, and a splendid Cabernet-Merlot blend from Gert Pomella's Weingut Milla - one of the rising stars of the region. As ever there's a split case of 6 of each wine.
A dark brick red, with spice, nutmeg, pepper and earth on the nose. On the palate it's a juicy sappy wine, with spice, cherries, and dark berry fruit flavours. Good length, gamey and spicy. An excellent value Zweigelt.
This wine was selected for the OZ CLARKE 250 BEST WINES 2010 guide - in which the following description appears:-
"Zweigelt is a smashing grape, but it's almost unheard of outside it's native Austria. It's delicious and peppery when it's not quite ripe, but so long as you don't spoil it with too much oak, you can ripen it right up and keep it's character. This is dark purple and the flavour is bursting with fruit and spice - cranberry, red cherry, raspberry and plum, with hints of ginger and allspice and a dryness of stones and wood bark that keeps the wine cool and northern, and leaves the impression of ripe red fruit grown in a forest glade."
