RONCHI DI MANZANO

[Susan in FL]

We have a bottle of this Italian white wine. I don't know what all the words mean, and I'm hoping that someone can tell me something about it. I know wines fairly well, but I've never learned to read the labels of all the Italian wines. What would be a good food to have with this wine?

[Brad Ballinger]

The wine comes from Friuli in NE Italy. It's a region that arguably makes the best white wines in Italy, and some would say beyond. This particular wine is a blend of sauvignon blanc, tocai friulano, chardonnay, and picolit. The blending wines are handled separately - all of them fermented and aged in oak except the sauvingon blanc, which only sees stainless steel - then blended when finished. I don't believe this wine is produced every year, but I could be wrong.

As the tasting note from Wine Spectator suggest, this will be a full bodied white wine, and I'd have it with somethng that has a rich sauce, whether that be fish, chicken, or pasta.

If you can read Italian, check out the Ronchi di Manzano web site.