Spie's Wine Tips No 1 - Sansovino Fruilaro Ambasciatore 2003

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Sansovino Fruilaro Ambasciatore 2003

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This wine is made from the Fruilaro grape variety and produced in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

It's produced in a rather unusual way. The grapes are harvested fully ripe in late autumn and spread out to dry in airy barns. Crushing and fermentation take place in winter. The wine sits for 8-10 months in stainless vats then a year in oak barrels then a further year in oak casks.

This wine is full-bodied, smooth with powerful cherry and violet aromas. It's really quite different to anything else out there but its smoothness underpins a truly luscious flavour helped no doubt by the 14.5% alcohol content.

A nice discovery today and well suited to tonight's dinner of fillet steak marinated in a fresh oregano and thyme infusion then pan fried in olive oil, button mushrooms seared in butter and garlic, and fresh young tender salad leaves with home made vinaigrette (my own recipe) made with herbes de Provence. Sounds rich but isn't so bad if you go easy on the butter and oil enjoy the food.

Expect to pay around £10-£14 per bottle. If you can find it, buy it :cool:
 
Thanks, i'll have a look out for that. Where did you pick it up from?
Do you know much about Shiraz wine? My girlfriend loves the stuff so i'm looking to buy her a bottle. But there's so many Shirazs'. I was told to buy one that was made in Iran.
 
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Ricochet J said:
Thanks, i'll have a look out for that. Where did you pick it up from?
Do you know much about Shiraz wine? My girlfriend loves the stuff so i'm looking to buy her a bottle. But there's so many Shiraz's. I was told to buy one that was made in Iran.
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Shiraz - go for Australian. Barossa Valley is more full bodied and powerful than the Hunter Valley, but both superb in their own way.

If you fancy something French then go for Crozes Hermitages - Shiraz is called Syrah in Europe.

Wine you may of been thinking of is Chateau Musar from Lebanon but that is blended from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Grenache, Obaideh, and Merwah grapes. It's superb by the way.
 
Sounds like my type of wine, I'll look out for it but we generally just buy one that looks good from tescos :)

Went to Tunisia last may and they had some fantastic local reds over there. Can't remember the name of them now but we brought a couple of bottles back and they really were much better then anything we've drunk so far here. And for €4-5 a bottle you can't go wrong :)
 
Ill just hop on the next plane shall it? :p Thanks ill have to check Direct Wine Shipments, long shot but its the only proper wine merchant i know of...
 
If anyone can get their hands on it i can thoroughly recommend Tiddy Widdy Well, a very nice Australian Shiraz, everyone who i know that tried it loved it. I've only ever had it in restaurants and it was £18 a bottle, so shop price is probably around £7.
 
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