Infatata Malvasia Secca di Tricoli

A little tart to start but really opens up nicely! SS

A new label from this winery in Salina island, based on Malvasia di Lipari grapes from a Cru called Tricoli. It's a "Malvasia secca" (dry), light, salty and mildly aromatic. A summer wine. Very good.

I have to admit - I had to look up where Salina, Italy was after ordering this by-the-glass white labeled "must try" on the wine list at a high-end restaurant/bar down the street from me. Turns out Salina is one of the Aeolian islands growing the delicious Sicilian dessert wine Malvasia delle Lipari. This wine comes from those same Malvasia grapes, but is fermented dry. Aromatic and highly expressive - it smells of jasmine, ripe pear, white peach, chaparral, and mint. It's juicy and appetizing and a total treat to taste this corner of the wine world.

Not hugely complex but very enjoyable if you like dry aromatic whites.

Pale lemon; medium plus intensity aromas of lemon, lime, lime blossom, white peach, juicy nectarine, saline; dry, high acid, medium alcohol, medium body, pronounced intensity flavors of lemon, lime, blossom, white peach, nectarine, saline; medium finish, ripe and tangy and refreshing, very good

Tropical at nose, fruity and silky in mouth. Very good, from Salina island.

A bit effervescent- minerally and slightly tart. Very nice.

Fun saline semi-aromatic white. Mostly white florals, very little ripe fruit, saline palate and pleasant phenolic grip

Fresh and sharp, lovely aromatics and minerality - perfect for the crisp and grilled fish

If the beach was liquid.