Name Greco di Bianco
Vintage 1978
Producer Cooperativa agricola Calabro-Ionica Bianchese
Appelation Greco di Bianco DOC
Grapes Greco
Alc./vol. 17%
Other info Greco di Bianco was rewarded DOC in 1980.
DOC-status gives retroactive effect on not yet
released older vintages.
Price

This bottle was kindly offered by Paolo Lolli at the fine restaurant Casa d'Antino in Copenhagen which is a great place to find older bottles of fine italians wines to drink. This single bottle, a bocksbeutel, came from a stash of very well stored older bottles he recently bought.
The wine had a brown colour. The nose sweet and intence. The fruit a bit on the neutral side showing honey, caramel, light citrus. Sweet and powerful in the mouth. Lighly complex aged fruit mostly showing caramel, honey and old wood.A bit rustic in style. But with an impressive structure and fine acids carrying the sweetness to a long taste. The alcohol stated on the label is probably the potensial with the resulting alcohol about 14%.

Arnt Egil Nordlien
Tasting note: April-05

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