Christian Patat Appassimento Rosso Wine (Episode 361)

We review a Christian Patat Appassimento wine produced in the Puglia region of Italy from the negroamaro grape.

The Appassimento in the name refers to a process of leaving grapes in the sun after being harvested to dry out slightly to intensify their sugars and their taste.

The word appassimento is derived from the Italian verb – “appassire” to wither.

This bottle was kindly donated by friends and viewers – Dan and Vicky Fitzpatrick.

Dan runs several businesses in custom-made pine and oak furniture as well as producing wooden beer pump handles and stripping painted doors back to the raw wood by a process known as double dipping.

This wine is Dan and Vicky’s current go-to wine and so they were interested to find out what we thought of it and kindly gave us a bottle to try.

The wine is a great burgundy colour. John L detected an unusual but pleasant solvent scent!

The taste is immensely powerful indeed without being over the top.

The cherry shines through together with hints of coffee and liquorice.

At £9.99 a great value wine.

00:00 Introduction
02:05 The Colour
03:56 The Nose
05:12 The Taste
06:24 The Price
07:46 Pairings
09:10 The Score

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