FEW things are simple in northeastern Italy, least of all lagrein, a red grape that can produce fresh, aromatic, highly seductive wines.
It's one of the most seductive wines on earth, with voluptuous fruit and caressing, ripe tannins.
This seductive Apulian wine, which can double as an aperitif or a dessert, is tangy, honeyed and raisiny.
Vya is made by the innovative Quady, a Madera, Calif., winery whose seductive dessert wines, Essencia, Electra and Elysium, praised in this space on Feb. 4, awakened a desire to sample its other wares.
Vya is made by the innovative Quady, a Madera, Calif., winery whose seductive dessert wines, Essencia, Electra and Elysium, praised in this space two weeks ago, awakened a desire to sample its other wares.
And though, like the de Sauveterres, I prefer the fine old Bordeaux wines with length and full body, that does not mean that the more immediately seductive, New World wines are not worth making or that I shouldn't make them.
And that you shun chardonnay at your peril, because it's the seductive David Beckham of wines, a global star, with Victoria as the oak, "acting like a sort of bra, I feel.
In the right place it can make incredible wine, extremely seductive and perfumed".
It was still a little closed and tannic, but the lamb smoothed out the tannins, leaving the seductive core of the wine in all its glory.
