2017 Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia SP68 Bianco White Blend
Deep orange-amber, the color of 22K gold. Obvious extensive skin contact and the cloudiness of a nat wine. Exotic nose of bergamot, allspice and dried apples, on the palate bone dry versions of loquat fruit, tangerine peel and spiced peaches. Mysterious, hypnotic. This is not an everyday white wine, you need to be prepared for it and even then many won't like it. Reading thru the last ten notes on CT, only one guy 'got' it. Nobody else liked it and one even presumed it spoiled so dumped it (though what he managed to describe about it indicated he probably had a good bottle).
I wasn't exactly prepared for it. On Wednesday night we were having fried shrimp and I told Bob to go grab a certain from the outside fridge and this is what he brought back instead. He had it open before I realized what was going on, so we tasted it and immediately put the cork back in for last night. In that brief taste, I thought I detected a match for curry flavors and given another 24 hours, and the fresh chicken breast I had in the fridge, I could get there. So I rubbed the chicken with a curry blend and salt, and bagged it for last night where I roasted it and served slices on basmati rice loaded with dill and kala jeera seed, and topped with lacy fried fennel. OH DAMN. This was one of those rare incredible harmonious wine-food matches where you almost can't tell where the food stops and the wine begins.
If there's another bottle of this in town that I can get my hands on, we'll probably have this meal all over again soon.