Today’s wine
was made from a classical Danube Delta Hills varietal named Feteasca Regala. Presumably a natural
hybrid of Kövérszölö and Fetească Alba (White Maiden Grape). The Sapata project
is thought to be a Romanian-Italian-Collaboration under the supervision of Di
Filippo Azienda Agraria from Umbria.
The Romanian estate in Colinele Dobrogei practises organic and biodynamic agriculture.
Like the back label taught me: even with “horses for working the soil”. Nice
one! Let’s check it out.
The colour seemed
to be juvenile and almost maiden like. Very bright yellow and close to some green’ish
reflexes. The nose was very floral, highly delicate, lean and pretty fruitful. Same
for the taste! At first the wine seemed a bit one-dimensional, however full of
lemons and maybe a bit of pine-apples. I might describe its style as very reductive
and lean. Later some green herbs with hints of mild honey evolved. The fruit remained
the same. The acid seemed very mild and not to vitalizing. In this case there
was no real need for a stronger acid. The balance was definitely fine. For me a
totally clean, definitely dry and not very complicated or profoundly
intellectual or whatsoever wine with nice attributes. In a blind tasting I’d
bet digestion system friendly Silvaner Kabinett trocken! Some hours later I’ve
spotted more Godello related features!?!
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