This came in a white wine sampler case, and we're so glad. We gave this five hearts AND favorited it. With my first sip, I said, this is something different. All my mom said, with eyes wide was, "Oh myyyy!" This wine is something really special. It has remarkable legs as do all of the wines that we've tried, and at first, it was redolent with citrus, but after 30 minutes, the flowers had opened. At first, I said, orange blossom? but as we progressed, my mother, who worked in a garden center for 10 years, said alyssum in the afternoon sun. Take her word for it: the citrus has receded, and the floral aspect has taken over. This is sooooo good. We are devouring a chunk of manchego cheese and crackers with it, but it could also pass as a light, dry dessert wine, perhaps with lavender-laced butter cookies. My mother wonders what it would taste like with curry, and we also think fresh figs would be wonderful with it. I actually tried a Zibibbo in a wine tasting room in Sicily many years ago, but it was a sweet and heavy dessert wine. This is an entirely different thing, and I agree with another reviewer who said it would make a good spritzer. It would make an excellent spritzer. I'm hard pressed to describe my feeling of well being after just one glass of this. I'm transported back to my time in Sicily when I felt for just a little while like the queen of the universe. So would you if you were a tall strawberry blonde of Swedish heritage, just 21 years old, and tramping around Southern Italy in the eighties. Good times, good times. Thanks for the beautiful wine and the revived memories.
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