Wiegner 'Contrada Rampante' carricante 2019

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Wiegner 'Contrada Rampante' carricante 2019High altitude elegance from Peter Wiegner. Once of far northern Italy, Peter was making wine in Tuscany with a young family. After a holiday to Etna he decided to move there and established a vineyard on the northern slopes of Europe's largest volcano. This carricante wine was grown at 720m above sea level, and the cool, crisp character with heaps of minerality will astonish anyone used to the richer, riper whites of the rest of Sicily. Riesling fans

but here we have some ribolla gialla

Ideal with meat based pasta sauces

which you might know better as zinfandel

Gosset stayed small and classy

Carmenere is an old Bordeaux variety that didn't take to grafting in the wake of phylloxera early last century

This has firm acidity as you would expect from a cool climate area

some oak more for structure than flavour

With similarities to barbera

one must turn to near neighbour Crozes-Hermitage where some wines of quality and value can still be found

this wine is more like shiraz from the Grampians or Pyrenees of western Victoria

It's relatively high dosage makes it a great match for fuller flavoured canapés and lighter entrées

The friuliano grape variety is ubiquitous in Friuli