Variety: Fortified Italian Desert Wine from Sicily
Region: Sicily
Country: Italy
Year: 2010/2011 ???
Price: 10 Euro
Shop: Enoteca Siciliana- in Sicily last Spring
Review: This is a sort of fortified 'vino liquoroso'. It is candy in a bottle. However, there is no addition of liquor, instead it is fermented in the sun (partially) and distilled naturally. The man who grew the grapes and owned the vineyard told us that sun is good for the grapes and so is soil. That sounds obvious, but he was limited by our Italian vocabulary.You can tell there is a higher alcohol content, but it goes down very smooth. It is apparently good with pastries, fresh fruit and gelato. However, it is supposed to be a dessert wine so it should be. The smell is very syrupy and sugary. It does have almost a cherry-like smell to it. Also maybe some peach comes through in the smell. I did have the thought later that I could just be associating those two fruits with syrupy smells because often they are stored in syrup. The taste is also very powerfully sugary. After that initial blast of sweet there are other flavors, honestly, of very strong grape. It reminds me of medicine or vitamin grape flavor. I smelled it several times, never got anything new, but really enjoyed smelling it none the less. The higher alcohol content is almost buried in the smell and taste, but you can sense it in the thickness and buzz you get. Summary sentence: Yummy sugar wine from Italy.
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