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Tami Grillo IGT Bianco 2010Price: $17.50    Case Price: $15.75

Tamigrillo
Color:
White
Body/Type:
Light Bodied
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Tami
Grapes:
Grillo
Serve At:
46°-54° F
Region:
Italy > Sicily > Siracusa

Perhaps the most aromatic of all of the Tami wines, the 2010 Grillo is an impressive effort with gorgeous aromatics that literally leap from the glass. On the palate there is ample fruit but it is eloquently juxtaposed by the bright tropical citrus core and brilliant minerality. Ideal with appetizers, fish dishes, risotto, and cheese.

Women Winemakers Selection March 2012

Tami is a joint project between Arianna Occhipinti, and a handful of friends and neighbors, including her boyfriend, the owner of Tami wine bar in Siracusa. These well-priced and balanced wines are made from purchased fruit and fermented using indigenous yeasts. The project is supervised by Arianna. Arianna Occhipinti is a young winemaker who released her first vintage in 2004 at the age of 21. A burgeoning cult figure in the biodynamic movement, Arianna tends to 14 hectares of olive groves and 5 hectares of vineyards in the land around Vittoria, southeastern Sicily. Growing a few white varietals as well as Nero d'Avola, Occhipinti has built a reputation on Frappato, a secondary grape used in Sicily to brighten heavier Nero D'Avola. In addition to her high-end wines, Occhipinti decided to add this moderately priced second label.

Sicily's wine history dates back to ancient Greece, when the tiny island was a Hellenic colony. Though most famous for its sweet Marsala produced on the western side of the isle, Sicily also features a broad pallette of exciting dry wines made from native varietals that hail from its eastern coastal region. Carricante, for example, is a white wine grape that's indigineous to the black ashen soils of Italy's largest active volcano, Mt. Etna. Nero d'Avola is Sicily's most famous red wine grape, though Nerello Mascalese grown further north of Avola in the Catania region may give it a run for its money in the near future. No matter what kind of wine you enjoy, Sicily's got something that will kick-start your palate.

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