On my Day trip to Spello and Assisi last week I stopped at the Sportoletti vineyard outside Spello and bought their red wines. Here are the tasting notes for the second red, Villa Fidelia, this is quality wine is made from grapes not local to the area and hence qualifies for the term “Super Umbrian“, it sells at €16 but has IGT status.
Super Umbrian Villa Fidelia, Spello, Umbria
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Villa Fidelia, Rosso 2005, produced by Sportoletti.Cost €16, abv 15%, bought direct from vineyard.
As is all too common with Italian wine there is not much information on the label, but the leaflet I picked up at the winery tells us that this wine is made from 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet Franc. It also tells you that the wine is deep red in colour with aromas of blackberry, tobacco, spices, liquorice and chocolate. Elegant in the mouth, rich in silky tannins well integrated in the taste, leading to a rich and long finish.
The wine certainly had a lovely deep ruby red colour, on the nose I agreed with most of vineyard’s notes, smelling sweet spice (cloves, cinnamon), liquorice, leather, tobacco and fruit, possibly blackcurrant. As with the other red from Sportoletti, Assisi Rosso, the high alcohol content was not particularly noticeable on the nose. In the mouth it had a great structure, the initial sweet spice and fruit flavour giving way to tannin that appears out of nowhere and pleasantly dries the mouth the longer you hold the wine there. Just a little more acidity at the end would finish it off perfectly, but really I’m just nit picking here. The wine has a good long finish with the initial sweet spice, liquorice and fruit flavours remaining long after the wine has been swallowed.
Verdict: a very good wine and much better than several I have tried from Tuscany selling for a similar price, buy again.
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