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Lillypilly Fratelli 7
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Region : Leeton Australia
Alcohol : 19.5%, 375ml
Style : Fortified
Avaiable in :
Australia
Notes : This richly flavoured fortified
wine has been blended from selected parcels carefully
stored in our winery for up to 20 years. Beautiful tawny
colour with rich golden amber on the edge. Aromatic ripe
fruit, spice and aged rancio. Velvety texture, luscious,
mouth filling and lingering flavours.
Fratelli is Italian for "brothers" and this wine is a
testament to the hard work of Pasquale and Angela
Fiumara and their seven sons in establishing the
family-owned vineyards and winery.
The first release of this rich, soft fortified wine is
named "Domenic Blend" in memory of the eldest Fiumara
brother.

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FESTIVE TABLE ...
Lillypilly Fratelli 7,
a sweet, gently fortified wine. David Ellis, Melbourne
Observer, 24 December 2007 —
SEE CLIPPING
THE HERALD (Newcastle)
26/03/08
Uncorked Score 4.5/5
It packs 19.5 per cent alcohol and invites
the pouring of a second glass, so it's best to enjoy this
clinker fortified at home in your favourite armchair. lt is
deep crimson with amber tints and exudes scents of rich
fruitcake and hazelnuts. Succulent raisin flavours hold sway
on the front of the palate and elements of bramble jelly,
cinnamon, cloves and nutty oak chime in on the middle
palate. Lingering lush fruit characters, minty tannins and a
whisper of flinty acid combine at the finish. It would be
great with a King island cheese plate with dried muscatels,
quince paste and poppy seed lavosh.
By John Lewis
The Examiner Mike
Burnett
Fratelli 7 marks history
A bit of this and a bit of that can build up in a winery
over a quarter of a century. Winemaker Robert Fiumara
decided it was time to indulge his passion for fortified
wine with some of the aged material sitting at his family's
Lillypilly Estate at Leeton in the NSW Riverina. This
included stock based on a range of varieties including
shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and muscat of Alexandria.
"Over the years we have released several wines that I would
put in the late-bottled vintage-port style, but I've also
had a keen interest in creating the basis for a softer,
richer, more complex and aromatic, cask- matured blended
fortified," Mr Fiumara said.
Other motives for the new fortified wine were to mark the
family's 35-year involvement in grape growing, the 25th
anniversary of its winery and to honour a family member. The
result is the Fratelli 7 (or seven brothers) that
commemorates Lillypilly founders Pasquale and Angela Fiumara
and their seven sons. The inaugural release also carries the
tag Domenic Blend, after the eldest son who died in 1987.
The Fratelli 7 is indeed a richer style of fortified (in the
style we once called port in this country). It has raisin
and nutty oak notes, complexity and a lengthy and smooth
finish. Lillypilly has also released its 1998 VP a fortified
blend of cabernet sauvignon |
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