2002 Vergelegen Mill race Merlot Cabernet - this Cape wine shows good
fruit and a nice weight ion the mouth, and while it has some soft
tannin, it drinks well now. I think it will continue to drink for 3 or
4 years, and the price is a bargain. Second night, no significant
change. Why was I trying it over two nights? Well might you ask!
Normally a bottle opened is a bottle dedicated to the wine Gods that
very night (with yours truly revipient of the libation) - rarely do I
taste again the next night, because rarely is there anything left to
taste. But in this case, I opened two bottles at once. I was faced with
a serious dilemma - either drink both bottles in the same night and
have SWMBO label me a p**stank, or spread them over two nights and
receive (relative) silence from the distaff side. Come on, you'd have
done the same thing! Besides, I wanted to taste them against each other
to decide which, if any, I wished to buy.

2003 Morgante Nero d'Avola - 100% varietal from Sicily, and IGT
wine. Raspberry, cinnamon and elastoplast in the nose, and quite big in
the mouth, full bodied with berries and long and warm. Second night,
much the same, although the cinnamon was reduced and the bandage
element was absent. Similar time frame for this one.

I think both of these wines are QPR winners, at $19 and $22, which
means that in the States they are probably about $1.85 a bottle! The
decision? Easy - a half case of each!

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2003 Morgante Nero d'Avola - 100% varietal from Sicily, and IGT
wine. Raspberry, cinnamon and elastoplast in the nose, and quite big in
the mouth, full bodied with berries and long and warm. Second night,
much the same, although the cinnamon was reduced and the bandage
element was absent. Similar time frame for this one.


Hi Bill,

I love the wines from Morgante. For the price you paid for the Nero
d'Avola, I can buy its bigger brother "Don Antonio" though, which is even
more complex.

Best,

Santiago

Mi e' parso che abbia scritto:

2003 Morgante Nero d'Avola - 100% varietal from Sicily,
and IGT
wine. Raspberry, cinnamon and elastoplast in the nose,
and quite big in the mouth, full bodied with berries and
long and warm. Second night, much the same, although the
cinnamon was reduced and the bandage element was absent.
Similar time frame for this one.

I think both of these wines are QPR winners, at $19 and
$22, which means that in the States they are probably
about $1.85 a bottle! The decision? Easy - a half case
of each!

Good choice, expecially for the Morgante, which I drank some
times in the past months. Here in Italy it costs around 7 euros
in a wineshop, it's hard to find a Nero d'Avola like that for
that money
BTW, it has won the QPR contest in the recent "Oscar del Vino"
event.
--
Vilco
Think Pink , Drink Rose'