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Verismo Wines are owned by the D'Ambrosio Family, long time entrepreneurs and grape growers in the Napa Valley. The name Verismo is Italian and translates into "absolute truth" or the "truth" in wine. As the D'Ambrosio's say, "Our wines embody the passionate relationship between the vineyard and the winery and all who contribute to the making of this wine."
Today the D'Ambrosio's own and manage over 125 acres of vineyards in the Napa Valley separated into 5 unique vineyards ranging in location from St. Helena in the north to the town of Napa in the south. Their focus is on micromanagement of the vineyards, separating out individual blocks within each vineyard and then managing these blocks as needed based on specific soil characteristics, vines, slope, drainage and a number of other characteristics. Their focus is to bring out the full expression of fruit from each grapevine. For many years the D'Ambrosio Family concentrated on growing the best quality grapes possible and selling the fruit to other area vintners. However with the release of the movie Sideways in 2004, they soon found themselves without contracts and or demand for their Merlot grapes. Seeing this, they decided to crush these grapes themselves and soon found out they had some "terrific juice"! This was also the impetus for starting to make wine from other varietals - their first release was in 2006 and in 2007 they brought on fruit from their own vineyards and now produce a combination of fruit grown themselves as well as sourced from other area vintners. At the time of this review, they make their wine at a custom crush facility in south Napa but have plans to build their own winery on one of their pieces of property in the area. The two main labels are the Stretto and Verismo with a third wine called Stella (a blended red wine). All wines produced by Verismo are made in very limited quantities, typically only several hundred cases. Their wines are priced extremely affordably by Napa standards; the Stretto label are wines that are made to typically drink soon while the Verismo wines are more age worthy. We started our tasting with the 2007 Sauvignon Blanc (no malolactic fermentation and no oak). This wine has a very fruit driven nose that is somewhat floral with tropical overtones including pineapple. The crisp palate has a complexity of flavors ranging from green apple to various notes of citrus. The 2007 Stretto Red wine is predominately Merlot and contains some fruity characteristics in both the nose and on the palate. The 2006 Malbec is a dark rich colored wine with some dusty earthy characteristics that lead from the aromas and are also represented on the palate. It has just the right tannin structure to pair well with a variety of foods. The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon is not a huge wine, rather its more refined with a smooth entry and soft supple tannins on the finish. It shows good fruit flavors including blackberry and plum. Visit: www.verismowines.com and or their vineyard location and information site: www.dbicnapa.com/vine.htm |
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