Italian Wines???

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This is just thinking out loud, OK? And it is not necessarily the case that wines in that cost ragne are to be had at cheaper prices in Italy than in her home town. Nor that the vintners have anything to sell. This said: To obvious for words, really, but, Veneto. For prices over USD 20 she´d be able to find very good Amarone wines, which are a bit on the sweetish side, while at the same time being monstrously good red wines (when they are good - the production of bad wines is never far away, so to speak). Or, the grand father of the amarone, the Recioto di Valpolicella, which has a very slight bitterness but on the whole is definitely sweet (I like TOmmasi´s, but I doubt that that would be impossible to find in a shop near her). There are also other wines in the Amarone style but that are produced outside the 5 communes allowing the DOC Amarone, or containing other grapes than the three allowed for an Amarone. 1999 Masi Grandarella Appassimento IGT comes to mind, but it is basically the same as the Tommasi Recioto - very little curiosity value. Good QPR, though.

HTH - HAND

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

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thank you so very much for all of your suggestions. She is very excited.

If You could be a bit more specific about /where/ she's going, it would be very much easyer to help.

She can either visit some supermarkets with a broad selections of italian wines or she could visit some wineries. When You writes 'sweeter side', means that red 'normal' red wines with a little residual sugar or perhaps whites. Or means it sweet wines - both reds and whites -, where the possibilities are overwhelming i Italy?

regards Jan

I'm a massive fan of Castello di Fonterutoli Chianti Classico Riserva...

"ggilbert" ha scritto

not be so easy

sweeter side. She

Moscato d'Asti: sweeeeeeter than honey.

Vilco

Although I may have read it too quickly, your reply seems to use 'Amarone' & 'Recioto' interchangably. To be clearer, although both are made from dried Valpolicella grapes (mainly Corvina) but for Recioto, fermentation is stopped so that it remains sweet; for Amarone, fermentation is allowed to continue until the wine is dry.

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Not that I ever tasted.