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Saturday, September 14, 2019 - The Friday wine for the Pizza became a Sicilian that we picked with us when we visited Donnafugata 14 years ago. Mille e una Notte 2003 is their most serious bottling of Nero d 'Avola (spiked with some "other grapes", probably French) from a year that was hot and dry throughout Europe, in other words as usual in Sicily. The soil is clay and limestone in the area of Contessa Entellina and is at slightly higher altitude (200-600 meters) which gives cooler nights that preserve a little acidity, it is anyway a clear warm climate wine with sun-sweet, dark fruit which has been given a good backbone from new French barrels.

In the scent there are dark cherries, licorice, figs, cigar box and some earthy notes. Flavors of sweet tobacco, dark, sweet cherries and blackberries, cedar and some olive-salt in the rather long finish. The tannins are fine, the fruit is ripe, deep and sweet, the alcohol is high but balanced. It may lack some acidity for real greatness but certainly it is a good wine and would probably go for another 5-10 years in the cellar.

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