Alto Valle de Rio Negro

Monday, January 31, 2011

Festivo Torrontes 2010, acceptable value though





Festivo Torrontes 2010, By Monteviejo Wines, USD 10

Good Torrontes from Uco Valley in Mendoza (south oasis). It shows nice herbal components with elegant flowers that complement in the palate with kiwi fruit and light citrus edge. Soft and kind of elegant. You may get to the precise temperature if cooled down to 6 celsius (F 42) and waiting up to warmer points where the delicate structure shows itself. I´d say a 85 point white with a acceptable value price. Not competitive but acceptable. Not even close to the bombastic showing of a Cafayate (Salta ) Torrontes nor the citrus driven Patagonian Torrontes. The three of them are quite good on theirs own core. The style imprinted by the winery is a whole game apart.

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