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IMG_0004Very often and again, every wine lover meets "old acquaintances", old familiar wines. You just don't change your preferences so quickly, you don't stay as true to anyone as you do to yourself when it comes to doing yourself a favour. This is especially true for wwine and food). In wine advertising, we know this behaviour all too well, which is why "new discoveries" keep popping up; which arouse curiosity and - if all goes well - perhaps also bring new customers, new discoveries of individual wineries, wines or entire wine regions. Some wine merchants have specialised in these new discoveries in addition to their regular assortment. The result is often an offer of a "tasting package" with various wines at good prices, wines that quickly disappear from the range. But if only one wine finds favour, the experiment is worthwhile for both the consumer and the wine merchant. This wine comes from such a package. The wine region of Sicily, interesting in its peculiarity and also in its history, but certainly not the kind of Italian wines that are in demand in this country. It starts with the grape varieties. Nero d'Avola and Frappato - who knows them, when Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are so popular? Nero d'Avola is firmly associated with Sicily, a grape variety that can produce tannic and spirited wines" that's what Sicily tastes like," I'm assured. I have to believe it, because I don't know what Sicily tastes like. A new experience? Do I want to have it? Frappato, an even less well-known Sizilien_388sicilian grape variety - there are supposedly only about 900 hectares left - I only know from wine literature. It produces wines with a pronounced fruity strawberry aroma, I am told. And - does the wine from these two (almost) exotic grape varieties - I don't know the proportions - bring a new experience? Yes and no. It is true: I find something of the much-vaunted temperament and fiery character in it, but temperament alone is not enough for me, it quickly leads to boredom. I look for the promised sultanas - you almost always find them in such concentrated wines - and I find them here too, just like the dried fruit... but then? The spices, the more subtle notes, the playfulness and elegance seem to have sunk in for me. It's true that the wine goes excellently with the cannelloni with spinach that I have on the plate. The wine is fun that way, too. But - would I elevate it to a new wine experience? Maybe, I don't know, because one bottle (a tasting bottle!) is not enough to expand taste habits - just like that. Curiosity has certainly brought something, but will the experience be forgotten tomorrow? I suspect so!

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