Intense, floral bouquet and deep color – a new taste from age-old origins.
The golden days of summer. Rich with scents and intense emotions that just beg to be accompanied by a great wine: Lison Classico DOCG Lison 2010. Summer is the season for new things. Some just flit through, passing trends that last just one season. Others remain and become cornerstones, and this is the case with the new Lison DOCG – brand new in name, but with a long tradition behind it. Because it comes from the oldest and most established wine-producing area which was once known as Tocai and now, following the May 2005 decision of the European Court, is called Lison Classico. A noble, old wine for a season that loves novelty. Wine expert Giovanni Stival tells us about it. "It has a rich color," explains Giovanni, "and is a full-bodied dense wine with remarkable depth. Which means it is not a simple 'easy-drinking’ wine, but rather an important one to be drunk even with hearty dishes. Lison Classico offers an intense, floral bouquet that is almost belied by what the eye immediately perceives about this wine: its deep color and perception of its alcohol content." And there is a surprise. The scent unleashes fruity, floral scents that we would even go so far as to define as being new for a wine from Tai grapes. "It is unusual because of my wine-making technique," concludes Giovanni, "which earlier I defined as traditional. It is a technique that uncovers new tastes in an old guise because they had been forgotten, but now have been rediscovered." It is the prince of white wines for a season that would seem transient and a slave to trends, but only on the surface. Digging deeper, it is a season in search of certainties and traditional values of an era from which, every-so-often, rediscoveries bloom as if they were new trends. But the reality is that they were never lost. It's true that the heat of summer favors easy-drinking wines (we'll be talking about these later). But summer is also the time for dinner parties, both large and small, in which to get together with friends, business contacts and other distinguished guests. To be coddled and amazed with special menus. To be delighted with fish dishes for which Italian cuisine is famous, accompanied by Lison Classico 2010 – splendid and impressive. Authoritative but not authoritarian, a wine that exalts food and doesn’t smother it. Moletto’s new offering for Summer 2011 – absolutely not to be missed.