The $50 Cervaro della Sala 2011 is made with 90% Chardonnay and 10% Grechetto, by Antinori, in Umbria, Italy. It a big wine. Buttery with oak and tropical fruits, and scores 16+ points on the Dionysian Scale of 20.
The 13.5% alcohol is more like Californian than for an Italian food wine, but for sipping, this wine is excellent and has
Many expensive Italian wines are now made in the “American” style of higher alcohol and lots of oak.
The wine was fermented in oak in and aged in oak for 5 months, then bottled- aged for another year. You’d like this wine, but find it hard to pair with foods except for a creamy Alfredo dish.
It is at peak at 4 years old, and will hold another two or three years easily. In vino veritas.
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