Tasting—Monte Tondo

Name: Monte Tondo

 Variety: 100% Corvino

 Region: Valpolicella 

 Country: Italy

 Year: 2014

 Price:  $7.95
Shop/wine critic/winery review: To create the classic Valpolicella cuvee, the noble Corvina is typically blended with other varietals such as Molinara and Rondinella. Monte Tondo’s Veneto IGT is the extraordinarily rare 100% Corvina wine. This Corvina is redolent of pie cherries, orange peel, potpourri, mint, and star anise. Brisk on the attack yet round and satisfying, it conveys suggestions of violets, white pepper, and ruby red grapefruit notes wrapped around a bright, vibrant core of sour cherry fruit. Bitter herbs and fine tannins join the wine’s chewy core of red fruits to make this an exceptionally versatile and table-ready red wine.

My review: This wine smelled like oak and blackberry. It was a spicy, more tannic wine with a full mouthfeel and smokey flavors of dill. There was a dry kind of aftertaste with residual blackberry and orange flavors.

I had this without tasting food.

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