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- Innkeeper - 11-30-2003
2000 Librandi, Ciro, Rosso Classico ($9 Blue Hill Wine Shop). This wine has become very popular in our part of the country. Have seen it in all the wine shops that I visit regularly. The folks at BHWS say it "flies out of the door." For the uninitiated, Ciro Rosso Classico is a DOC in and around Ciro in Calabria in Southern Italy. It is the region where most of the ancestors of Italian Americans I grew up with came from. Admittedly, never heard any of them mention wine. Regardless this is yet another very nice wine from south of Tuscany. It is made from 95% gaglioppo with perhaps a shot of trebbiano and/or greco bianco. Despite its 13% alcohol, it is medium bodied, verging on light. This could be from the optional SWs.
The wine gives you plums, figs, and some black fruit on the nose and upfront. Southern Italian dirt and chewy tannin cross the palate. It finishes quickly but nicely, but was just about maxed out. It matched very well with penne in eggplant & tomato sauce with sweet Italian sausages and salad viniagrette. The salad contained the first tomatoes we have purchased since July 15. Sigh!
The Librandi Ciro is almost bound to show up in your individual areas. Give it a shot.
- Botafogo - 12-01-2003
And the resounding endorsement of the Wine Spectator, "an ancient style of winemaking with rustic, earthy flavors..71/100" makes it a MUST buy! We can't get enough of this and other typically rustic Calabrese wines. Good call IK.
Roberto