Featured Wines - Sept 2003

A brilliant, vibrant wine that radiates sunshine from every glass, the 2002 Casa Silva Classic Semillon is latent with the waft of tropical fruit: mango, pineapple, and lime emerge with airing, to foretell a long and illustrious future. Rich in flavor, texture and balance, the 2002 Casa Silva is already a bright, extremely enjoyable wine that seems ready to pop with pent up fruit and crisp acidity. And like all self respecting Semillon wines, the...

A deep, brooding, highly extracted wine, the 2001 Molettieri Irpinia Aglianico is more than a glass of wine; it's a meal as well. In the glass, the wine's saturated purple robe offers up exquisite scents of woodland truffles, anise, tar, and a sensual autumnal sweetness. On the palate, this Aglianico continues its gustatory assault with layer upon layer of black fruits, rose petal, tobacco, and subdued earth tones, and this is before the wine's c...

Forget all of the light, insipid Verdicchios you may have experienced in Italian restaurants or cheap seafood shacks across America, the 2000 Bisci Verdicchio di Metalica is the real Mazzoni. It is amply endowed and arrayed in a golden robe. Pure and richly fruity, this Verdicchio offers up aromatic fireworks and more than a hint of exotica. Ripe pineapple, along with hints of honeysuckle and white flowers, caress the nose, while a textured, frui...