Clear deep plum red. Fairly intense nose of blueberry jam, cherry syrup, prunes and vanilla. Medium-bodied with high acidity, still-rough tannins and heat from the alcohol. Tastes of sour cherries with a slightly cherry-pit bitter, long finish. Needs another year.
Opens with fleshy, spicy perfumed red cherry scents that evolve on the palate to generous bitter cherry flavour with firm tannic support and food-friendly acidity. Another easy to like example from the ripe ’15 vintage.
Deep ruby in colour with a youthful slightly dusty nose of red cherries, licorice and a lightly cedary note; medium-bodied, dry, sour cherry flavour with lively acidity and ripe tannins. A versatile red for all Italian tomato-based dishes.
This is a wine that benefits from time and not over chilling; let this relax and unknit in the glass some before drinking (liberally). The pixelated minerality will spill out of the glass, carried with subtle and alluring reductive notes, pine nuts, lemon thistle, meadow herbs, quince blossom and pear skin. Etna Bianco Superiore can only come from the village of Milo, embracing and facing the sea breezes from 700 m altitude. This is 40-year-old Carricante (with 10% other autochthonous grapes) that is harvested early and spends 10 months in stainless. The finish lingers with seawater freshness and salted citrus. Serious wine; best enjoyed at cellar temperature and with octopus, scallops or white fish now, or better yet, your cellar.
Vibrant floral, citrus and green fruit scents resolve on the medium weight palate to green apple and lemon citrus flavours, with a drying lick of mineral and brisk, food-friendly acidity.
Aromatic green grape and a light trace of mineral with green fruit flavour evolving towards crisp green apple on the palate. Lively acidity and gravelly mineral round out the finish. Atypical Gavi, not as austere as in more typical vintages. Once again reflecting the ripeness of 2015 throughout many European wine regions.
A surprisingly soft Grigio with a mineral core which supports the peach, citrus, yellow plum, apple and citrus. Put a good chill to it and serve it this summer on the patio. Very good to excellent quality.