WBW #42: Italian wine in seven words hosted by Spittoon
We’re wordy folks. So the challenge of reviewing a wine in just seven words is a bit outrageous and daunting. We’ve thought of many loopholes, like telling you lots of background information about the wine, where it comes from, the winemaker and what’s typical for all of these. But if we did that, we’d probably end up cheating a bit, imbuing that preamble with hints of our experience of the wine.
As this month’s theme for Wine Blogging Wednesday (hosted by Andrew at Spittoon) is Italian reds, we thought we’d go back to a wine we’ve already reviewed — but not in words, in pictures. You can go to Chateau Petrogasm to see our image for the 2005 Tenuta di Trinoro Passopisciaro (we thought including the picture here might also be cheating in a way, though you can check out the wine’s label below). And here, you can read our seven words:
Rustic, textured, delicate, strong. Another glass please!
(disclosure: domaine547 sells this wine and this is not intended as an advertisement. Just to prove that to you, we’re not providing any linkage. But, heck, if it sounds good to you we won’t stop you from picking up a bottle…)
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