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An Elegant and Refined Red Wine: Mirabile’s Tannat

Mirabile wine tannatEdward Deitch talks about this wine on MSNBC.

Mirabile’s Tannat is nothing less than elegant and refined, full of dark berry fruit — blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry — along with notes of coffee, tobacco, smoke and spice. It’s bright with ample acidity, and ripe but not overly alcoholic, an altogether complex and delicious wine. It’s too bad there are just 100 cases of it.

Tannat also figures in another first-rate Mirabile wine called Menfri ($40), a blend that combines that grape with nero d’avola and cabernet sauvignon, but which actually reminded me of a ripe pinot noir with a touch of cedar. These wines are emblematic of a new sophistication that is emerging in Sicily, which is becoming one of Italy’s most exciting wine regions.

All of the wines are imported by Domaine Select Wine Estates, New York.

Read more at MSNBC.com

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 12:02 am and is filed under Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “An Elegant and Refined Red Wine: Mirabile’s Tannat”

  1. Keith Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

    Hi there!

    Thank you for this fun and exciting blog. I’m going to Sicily for a month in January - not the best time of the year to go, but I’m still excited. Your blog gave me lots of great ideas for things to do.

    Sincerely,
    Keith

  2. Sicily Guide Says:
    October 28th, 2007 at 12:25 am

    Dear Keith:

    thank you so much for your nice comment!

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