Wine Education Service - Italy - The Heel & Toe

Pippa Hayward with Sandy Leckie

• 2013 Alovini Basilicata Bianco 90 Points

  Italy, Basilicata

  Light gold.
  Fruity and flowery bouquet, grapes and pears, delightful.
  Ripe fruit, plenty of refreshing acidity, bitterness going through to the mid palate, quite long.

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• 2013 La Guardiense Greco Sannio Janare 89 Points

  Italy, Campania, Sannio

  Lightish grey-gold.
  A restrained nose, fruity and mineral.
  Sweet fruit with mineral notes, astringent, well balanced, very long.

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• 2013 Feudi di San Gregorio Albente 89 Points

  Italy, Campania, Campania IGT

  Very light, silvery green.
  Delicious nose, slightly mineral, peachy.
  Lovely wine, slightly mineral, some bitterness, spicy, great length.

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• 2010 S. Bonifacio Biferno Camillo de Lellis Riserva 91 Points

  Italy, Molise, Biferno

  Just translucent.
  Very mineral nose, red fruit, savoury.
  Very sweet attack, then very dry, tannins under control. long.

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• 2012 Barone di Bolaro Cirò Classico Superiore 91 Points

  Italy, Calabria, Cirò Classico Superiore

  Dense.
  An extraordinary, wonderful, developed bouquet, pungent, vanilla custard and flowers.
  Dusty fruit, loads of soft tannin, wonderful fruit in the mid palate, a characterful wine.

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• 2008 Alovini Aglianico del Vulture Armand 91 Points

  Italy, Basilicata, Aglianico del Vulture

  Dense.
  A very complex nose, leaf tea and dark fruit.
  Phenomenally delicious, fruity and very long.

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• 2012 Cantine Pervini Primitivo di Manduria Archidamo 87 Points

  Italy, Puglia, Primitivo di Manduria

  Quite attractive nose, jammy fruit (brambles) and caramel.
  Fruity and tannic, strangely sweet and dry, fair balance, a simple wine.

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• 2003 Candido Duca d'Aragona Salento IGT 91 Points

  Italy, Puglia, Salento IGT

  Mature notes of stewed fruit.
  Treacly black fruit, complex and delicious.

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