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The Right Wine For Your Food
Italian wines have been consistently among the highest quality and highly impressive wines of the world for centuries, and if we want to drink good and memorable wines, we need to become more familiar with them.

For starters, I suggest an amazingly tasty wine from the Veneto province, called Amarone della Valpolicella. Valpolicella is a grape growing region that produces light and fragrant quality wines using 3 types of grapes, Covina, Rondinella, and Molinara. Amarone, which is a type of Valpolicella is ranked among the highest quality and impressively tasty wines of the region. This wine tickles the senses. It could be considered a sexy wine because it revives the taste buds and re-stimulates the senses.

It is a fruity wine, that carries the taste of black cherry with hints of prune. It is settling in the mouth, and delightfully pleasing. It is dry, warm, and full bodied.

I would take it to friends and family gatherings, and suggest it for any important event, because you can receive nothing but compliments when you serve it. It is by no means an ordinary wine, and should be in any cellar to make it complete.

This wine is ideal with most lamb dishes, especially, stew or braised. Drink it with the Moroccan Couscous and similar dishes that are tomato based like beef and chicken ragout.

This is a wine that brings joy and happiness to the soul, and revives the spirit. A wine to die for!

The Right Wine For Your Food

Montepulciano is a beautiful hilly region on Tuscany's southwestern edge, east of the historic hilltop town of Siena, where Tuscany meets Umbria near pretty Lake Trasimeno. The Montepulciano grape is found in numerous regions around Southern Italy and most famously in the town of Abruzzo. The grape is often confused with Sangiovese when used for making Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

While increasingly enjoyed as a non- blended varietal, Montepulciano is most classically crafted into two style of wines, Rosso Conero and Rosso Piceno. Both are blends of Montepulciano and Sangiovese with Piceno typically having a mixture of 85% Sangiovese and 15% Montepulciano while Conero is typically a blend of 15% Sangiovese and 85% Montepulciano.

This young wine, bottled in the same year it is produced, has an intense ruby red color, with light violet reflections. It features a soft bouquet, considered fruity, and it has a dry, smooth, and well-balanced flavor, with an enjoyable slightly bitter but pleasant aftertaste.

Montepulciano has a fairly intense nose of strawberry and ripe plum fruit, combined with hints of leather and fading red flowers. On the palate it is dry, warm and quite smooth with good freshness. Flavors of Morello cherries, peaches and plums are backed by soft yet persistent sweet tannins and subtle tobacco notes.

The quality of Montepulciano wines produced in Abruzzo has been constantly improving in the last ten years, making Abruzzi, once a backwater in wine making, one of the most interesting realities in the Italian scene.

This wine can accommodate many red meats and game birds. It's over all smooth and balanced taste can please almost every kind of wine drinker.