Tasting - "Fontana Candida Frascati"

Name: Fontana Candida - Frascati

Variety: 60% Malvasia Bianca di Candia, 
                30% Trebbiano,
                10%   Malvasia del Lazio
Region: Latium, Frascati 
Country: Italy 
Year: 2012, 2010 
Regular Price: $12  
Sale Price: $5.95

 

Vintage Cellar Tasting Notes:

A blend of 60% Malvasia Bianca di Candia, 30% Trebbiano and 10% Malvasia del Lazio. This Frascati, made from grapes grown in volcanic soils near Rome and cold filtered, is a pale straw gold. On the nose it offers light-as-a-zephyr lemon and a hint of grass. On the tongue it is ultra crisp and delightfully flinty, its lemon and clementine flavors as smooth as old silk. At the end of a nice clean finish a dab of ripe pear takes a bow.


Personal Tasting Notes:
     This wine did have a tart taste and lingered for only a short time, with a definite lemon flavor, although I did not taste the pear finish described in the vintage cellar tasting notes. had a rather clear golden color, not one of my favorite wines as I found it to be rather dry.

     I did not have the wine with food although I believe that it might have gone well with some seafood, also this made the wine more dry tasting.