Terre di Sole Nero d'Avola di Sicilia IGT Apalos 2005
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A new Nero d'Avola from Terre di Sole, our best selling Sicilian producer - rich and full-bodied, a wonderful food wine.
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Release Notes:
More than 80% of Sicily’s vineyards are planted with grape varieties native to the island with Nero d’Avola as the most famous example. Apalos, this wine’s name, is the Greek word for tender and soft. This moniker accurately reflects this Nero d’Avola’s rich and full-bodied elegance in opposition to the over-extracted, heady examples that are all too common.
Tasting Notes:
A dark ruby-violet colored wine with an intense fruit and floral nose of plum, black licorice, violet and black pepper. On the palate, this full-bodied red has dark fruit and herb flavors and a lot of dry extract. The roundness continues up to the clean finish on soft, silky tannins. Nero d’Avola is perfect for hamburgers, lamb, prime rib and other hearty red meat dishes. Drink now to 2010.
Winery:
Terre di Sole was created by two families from Verona, in northern Italy, who are famous for their Amarone and Valpolicella. In Sicily, they have used their winemaking experience to create... Read more
Region:
Sicily was long the sleeping giant of Italian wine. Over the last 25 years, this beautiful island’s potential to produce interesting white and red wines has started to be realized. The... Read more
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Overview
Greek settlers first planted vineyards in Italy sometime around 800BC. Since then, wine has been entrenched in the Italian culture, ‘as common as water on the dinner table’. ... Read more
