Typical Sardinian Vermentino di Gallura with an inviting fruity nose.The palate is rich, slightly sweet attack, with pineapples, sweet pear flavours.Nice finish too, with some aromatic spice. Top PQR at 7 eur.
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Dinner at Saison (Saison, San Francisco): Wow - this was a real surprise. A very serious Vermentino here - a world away from your run-of-the-mill simple, seafood-friendly Liguria white. It had such an inviting nose, shwoing white osmanthus flowers and sweeter rose petal notes, with a bit of grass and gooseberries dancing around a core of honey, beeswax and little nutty notes. The palate had a rich, slightly sweet attack, with pineapples, ripe green apples and sweet pear flavours at the fore. However, this showed quite dry from the midpalate on, with a lovely lining of minerality and fresh acidity running through the ripe, fleshy notes, so that while there was lovely depth and a nice ripeness to this, it still had a lovely clean feel to it that made a great pairing for smoked blue-fin tuna. Nice finish too, with a good lick of aromatic spice and more suggestions of rose lingering in the backpalate with a sneaky length. A lovely wine. I liked this a whole lot more than the 2007 we had some time back.
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9/12/2012 - sellerscellar wrote: 91 Points
Such an incredibel a dn refreshing white. I would buy a case if I could.
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8/11/2012 - olracx62 wrote: 89 Points
Typical Sardinian Vermentino di Gallura with an inviting fruity nose.The palate is rich, slightly sweet attack, with pineapples, sweet pear flavours.Nice finish too, with some aromatic spice. Top PQR at 7 eur.
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7/21/2012 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Dinner at Saison (Saison, San Francisco): Wow - this was a real surprise. A very serious Vermentino here - a world away from your run-of-the-mill simple, seafood-friendly Liguria white. It had such an inviting nose, shwoing white osmanthus flowers and sweeter rose petal notes, with a bit of grass and gooseberries dancing around a core of honey, beeswax and little nutty notes. The palate had a rich, slightly sweet attack, with pineapples, ripe green apples and sweet pear flavours at the fore. However, this showed quite dry from the midpalate on, with a lovely lining of minerality and fresh acidity running through the ripe, fleshy notes, so that while there was lovely depth and a nice ripeness to this, it still had a lovely clean feel to it that made a great pairing for smoked blue-fin tuna. Nice finish too, with a good lick of aromatic spice and more suggestions of rose lingering in the backpalate with a sneaky length. A lovely wine. I liked this a whole lot more than the 2007 we had some time back.
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7/12/2012 - WineDoctors wrote: 90 Points
whoa. aromatic. full body. toto we are far away from liguria
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6/26/2012 - scottpwine wrote: 91 Points
Great wine. Very unique flavor
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