TNs: Due' Verdicchio

WINE TALK
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I was walking around the Wine Library recently looking for some different whites to try, just grabbing bottles off the shelf as it were. The first was:

2006 Fattoria San Lorenzo Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Vigna delle Oche.

Pale yellow-white in the glass, with a nose that seems to have a hint of bitterness to it, and some “etched” minerality. From the nose, you would guess that this wine is going to be bone dry on the palate. And it is dry, with a little bitter citricity on the finish, but it comes across a little fuller/rounder than you would have expected off the nose. Not bad, and still fairly vibrant given that it’s 3 years old, although I wouldn’t think this wine will hang in there for any extended time (that last being pure speculation on my part, as I have no experience in how a verdicchio might age). White fruits on an austere frame, but something I would consider again.

Let me go open verdicchio #2 [wink.gif]

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2008 Fattoria Laila Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi

Given the differences in labeling, I’m guessing the first wine might have been a single vineyard - I know both wines were in all likelihood under $20 a bottle, as I was just grabbing without a lot of thought process involved.

Similarly light in color to the other wine, with more fruit & less minerality on a nose that is otherwise non-memorable. Lighter-bodied to the taste, but relatively short on the finish - this is probably best served as an inoffensive summer sipper out on the deck on a hot/humid day when you are BSing with company and not paying too much attention to what you are drinking. Other than that, not a lot going for it, and probably not something I would think to buy again.

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BTW, to give the 2nd wine it’s “full due”, it was bottled with an artificial/composite cork. With the possible exception of France, Italy has long been one of the most backward/retarded countries in terms of adopting alternatives to cork enclosures for everyday wines that are intended for near-term consumption, so while I wouldn’t necessarily buy the wine again, I did appreciate the fact that they didn’t bother running the risk of a “corked” bottle for a wine with no aspirations towards either longevity or greatness. [welldone.gif]