Feudo Montoni - Catarratto 2024
Price: $28.99
Sale Price: $22.99
| Producer | Feudo Montoni |
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| Country | Italy |
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| Region | Sicliy |
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| Varietal | Cararratto |
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| Vintage | 2024 |
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| Sku | 14313 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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While the name, grape and background are interesting, what I find compelling about this wine is how uniquely delicious it is. Italy, particularly Sicily in this case, is blessed with a plethora of indigenous grapes and small producers willing to make their living preserving their heritage. In a sea of familiar and at times, uniform, flavors, it is refreshing to taste something that is, well… different.
What’s truly exciting is you don’t need to be a sommelier or wine geek to enjoy a bottle like this. You might need to be one to pronounce it or be able to rattle off the different sub-varieties of the Catarrato grape. But to enjoy it? All you need is a glass.
Ready to explore? Move beyond your comfort zone? But trust me, you will still be quite comfortable…
Aromas of orange blossom, pink grapefruit and guava mingle with earthier notes of freshly cut grass and wild herbs, in that way only Italian whites seem to do. Fruit… earth… a round mouthfeel, yet cut through with bright acidity. Refreshing, yet substantive. Food? Absolutely, thanks for asking! I’ll have an antipasti platter filled with local cheeses and cured meats, some eggplant caponata, oohhh grilled sardines please! And definitely Pasta alla Norma, one of Sicily’s famed dishes. Click on the Pic for a recipe.
Wine Spectator: 91 Points
Orange blossom and tarragon notes waft through this creamy, light- to medium-bodied white. Fresh and balanced, with flavors of ripe nectarine, melon, candied pink grapefruit peel and green almond underscored by a tang of salinity that echoes on the finish. Drink now through 2030. 2,900 cases made, 800 cases imported.
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