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| Bottle of Spinelli 2008 |
Spinelli
Montepulciano D'Abruzzo 2008
Atessa, Italy
Montepulciano Grape
4.00 USD
Medium ruby red colour; warm, fruity, dark berry, plum, leather and herb aromas and flavours; dry, medium bodied with crisp acidity and moderate tannic structure.
Serving Suggestion:
Tomato based pasta dishes, Italian sausage or medium cheeses. (Discription from winealign.com)
The third wine of our first ever Friday wine night Derek chose this bottle of Spinelli. It was quite a difference from our first two but a good one to end the meal with. It had a noticeable alcohol smell to it with some sort of sweet smoky oak smell. After about an hour of drinking it I started to smell what I thought was a molasses and cherry. It tasted semi-sweet with a dry cranberry undertone. It had a slight burn in it from the alcohol and it stayed with me after each sip in the beginning but after about an hour of it being open it smoothed out and develop a chocolate taste and seemed to thicken up.
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