The 2013 Yearbook of Italy’s Finest Wines, by writer and publisher Luca Maroni, showcases Mattia Vezzola’s PalmArgentina – awarding it a silver medal and a rave review!
Luca Maroni is one of the most highly respected writers and publishers in the Italian wine world. Straight out of university – between 1987 and 1989 – he collaborated with a legendary name in wine journalism: Luigi Veronelli.
Striking out on his own shortly afterwards, he founded Lm Edizioni in 1990, creating several newsletters, reviews and publications.
One of these is a yearly guide or “Yearbook” to the best in Italian winemaking, first issued in 1993. The 2013 edition of the Yearbook showcases Mattia Vezzola’s PalmArgentina – awarding it a silver medal and a rave review that (in true Maroni style) reads like a poem.
We hope as little as possible of the poetry gets lost in translation! If so, a sip or two of PalmArgentina is sure to restore it.
96 points out of 100
2nd place in the Finest Sweet Wine category
“Sensations: its rosy core of black cherry, raspberry, strawberry and blackberry captivates and enchants; honey aromas abound without palling. Never wearisome, the honey nuances effuse and express both flower and fruit. Density in its purest state, juice distilled by alcoholic power yet cloaked in luscious fruit pulp, refreshed and cooled by its sweet and spicy notes, glittering like diamonds or winter snow. Flavors and fragrance feed on each other, enduring, overflowing: strawberry aromas are magically ripe, creamy and laced with vanilla, yet show their minty, verdant vein, alive and thriving. Fabulously bright and clear, vinification has maintained that terse, superb extract that constitutes the wine’s sovereign merit. This grapey, dulcet, raspberry-fraught, tropical titan is one of the very finest sweet wines of the year.”
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