{"id":704,"date":"2026-01-08T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/3-0-5-vigna-casalj-tenuta-rapitala-2023-alcamo-classico-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:08:45","slug":"3-0-5-vigna-casalj-tenuta-rapitala-2023-alcamo-classico-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/3-0-5-vigna-casalj-tenuta-rapitala-2023-alcamo-classico-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"3.0\/5 &#8211; Vigna Casalj &#8211; Tenuta Rapital\u00e0, 2023, Alcamo Classico, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rating: 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Vigna Casalj from Tenuta Rapital\u00e0, 2023, Alcamo Classico, Italy, makes a pleasant White wine appearance, its straw colour medium in intensity and clarity clear. The nose offers a medium-intensity aroma of blossom, wet stones and passion fruit. On the palate, acidity and tannin show a balanced medium feel, with fine-grained texture and a dry finish. Flavours of gooseberry, elderflower and grapefruit emerge, while a medium finish suggests the wine is at its best now.<\/p>\n<h3>At a glance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type:<\/strong> White<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> clear, medium, straw<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nose:<\/strong> medium; blossom, wet stones, passion fruit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palate:<\/strong> Body medium, Acidity medium, Alcohol medium, Sweetness dry, Feel fine grained, Flavour intensity medium<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tastes:<\/strong> gooseberry, elderflower, grapefruit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finish:<\/strong> medium<\/li>\n<li><strong>Development:<\/strong> Fully Developed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Readiness:<\/strong> drink now<\/li>\n<li><strong>Balanced:<\/strong> yes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complex:<\/strong> yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Food pairings<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pan-seared scallops with citrus beurre blanc<\/li>\n<li>Grilled asparagus with goat&#8217;s cheese salad<\/li>\n<li>Gooseberry and elderflower sorbet<\/li>\n<li>Herbed quinoa with roasted vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Fried calamari with tangy aioli<\/li>\n<li>Steamed mussels in white wine broth<\/li>\n<li>Crispy prosciutto-wrapped melon<\/li>\n<li>Roasted vegetable tart with basil cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: 3.0\/5 This Vigna Casalj from Tenuta Rapital\u00e0, 2023, Alcamo Classico, Italy, makes a pleasant White wine appearance, its straw colour medium in intensity and clarity clear. The nose offers a medium-intensity aroma of blossom, wet stones and passion fruit. On the palate, acidity and tannin show a balanced medium feel, with fine-grained texture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wineclub"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17495_20260108200815.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}