Luscious Whites
 

There is one for every palate and every preference!
Fuller-bodied than Riesling, less crisp than Sauvignon Blanc, more obvious than Gruner Veltliner...
White wines that caress your palate and roll across your tongue, some with oak some without.
Think Chardonnay, Marsanne, Viogner and even a Falanghina!

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 Clay Station Viognier, Lodi California, 2005
 


Loads of seductive stone fruit--peaches and nectarines, star anise and honeysuckle aromas. Rich and voluptuous on the palate with juicy apricots, ginger, mandarin peel and exotic spice. A fresh and lingering finish.
A lush viognier lovers utopia!

$19.98 BC
(+106401)
$17.98 AB/$19.95 On

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 Raimat Albarino/Chardonnay Costers del Segre, Spain 2005
 

The Raimat has a lovely fruit-freshness highlighted with orange blossoms, tree fruit, melon, honey and lime leaf. Clean in the mouth with a creamy texture and soft acidity, bolder on the mid-palate with a rounded, lingering finish touched with almond.
Highly recommended!

$12.99 BC/AB
(+255604)

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 Porta Di Mola "Yellow Cello", Campania Italy, 2005
 

A beautiful and exotic wine that is work seeking! Made from a grape that was revered by the Greeks and Romans--called Falanghina--this wine is a bit of an anomoly. Rich and quite unctuous as opposed to its more usual crisp style with honied, earthy (truffled) and mineral aromas with mandarin orange,ripe melon and beeswax notes. On the palate it is lush and smooth--almost oily with soft, exotic spice and clean on the finish. Dry and fresh but with the perception of ripe fruit sweetness.
$19.50 approx. at select private wine stores
(+491291)

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 Cookoothama Chardonnay, South Eastern Australia, 2005
 

Toasty and buttery on the nose with melon and floral aromas. Crisp on the entry sliding into a full, rich mid- palate with vanilla, warm spices and butterscotch followed by a long, spiced citrus zesty finish.

$13.99BC
(+624809)

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 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Chardonnay, South Australia, 2006
 

Crisp tree fruit, praline, citrus and exotic spice aromas and leesy notes. Warm, smooth and softly rounded on the tongue with yellow plum and caramel flavours finishing with the grip of oak spice and a lingering ending.
Widely available and screw capped!
$14.99 BC/Canada wide $14-$16
(+321943)

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 Perfect for Agents and Retailers

Shelf Talkers are perfect for agents who need them quickly and don't have in house printing. Or for all you Retailers-private beer and wine stores in and outside of Vancouver who read Wine Diva religiously, carry the products I review and want to have your own "Pink & Cheeky" Wine Diva talkers.
You can print them in black and white or in colour. (Just remember to set you advanced printer settings and check off "colour").
There are four per page-all different-and they print out exactly as you see them on the page.
You can see all the available shelf talkers by clicking on the Shelf Talkers menu item on the left side of the site. If a wine review has a shelf talker, it a link will appear in the review. If you want to know how to get a shelf talker made for your wine contact me at daenna@winediva.ca

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 from around the world...

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• MandraRossa-Italy
• Noble Ridge-BC
• Peller Estates-BC
• SonoVino-Italy
• Villa Maria-New Zealand

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 Angove's Nine Vines Viognier, South Australia, 2006
 

Light straw in colour with exotic citrus, white peach, minerals, and warm spice aromas with tropical floral notes. Slick and seductive on the palate showing lime oil and hints of licorice and white pepper.
Refreshing and voluptuous--a deadly good combination!

$15.99 Private wine stores
(+254664)

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 How Cheesy...
 Formaggio Ubriaco

This is a hard cows milk cheese from (generally from Northern Italy) that has been brushed or immersed in red wine. Generally it's aged 6-10 months. One would expect it to have a wine-ish hue seeping in from the rind but it has a lovely creamy flesh with a distinctly purple rind with just the faintest hint of wine-colour soaking in underneath. It has a briny aroma similar to parmesan with fruity, nutty and smoky nuances with a very pleasing and distinct wine-y flavour. The texture is very firm and crumbly suited to an aged cheese. Ubriaco means "tipsy" or "drunk" in Italian and another interesting version called Ubriaco al Prosecco is brushed with Prosecco must (skins and leftovers from winemaking) giving it a delicate floral fruitiness.
Yuuuummmy!
Sounds like a perfect pairing to me.
Wine Pairing: A lush Italian red wine made from Cabernet, Merlot, Raboso or Nebbiolo or a Valpolicella or Amarone would be nice.
$7.95 per 100gr
Stink Factor: Medium-low (in a very good way)

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