August 6, 2023 - It's been some time since I had such an amazing wine. Lots of sediment on the bottle side. Dark ruby red with orange ring. Open bouquet with extremely ripe and highly developed fruit, yet solid structure and tannin presence to guarantee many more years of development and life in the bottle. Long length and pleasant finish. Worked extremely well with balsamic vinaigrette and olive oil to a complex meat sauce and pasta. Well done!
February 2, 2022 - Intense color with garnet hues. The aroma is complex, elegant, with intense fruit and notes of ripe plums, spice, and hints of herbs, minerality and leather. The flavor is immense, fatty, tannic, but very balanced, with fresh acidity; long fruity and smooth long finish.
November 18, 2020 - Decanted for 40mins to an hour. Intense color with garnet hues. The aroma is complex, elegant, with intense fruit and notes of ripe plums, spice, and hints of herbs and leather. The flavor is immense, fatty, tannic, but balanced, with fresh acidity; long fruity and spicy finish.
March 30, 2019 - Dark fruits and a bit of barnyard on the nose. Firm tannins after a 2-hour decant. Drinking well now, but certainly has ability to age longer. Blueberry and dark cherry, leather, earthiness. Excellent with herbed rack of lamb.
January 15, 2019 - Color: Dark and impenetrable. Nose: Smells dark, too. Black licorice, blackberries, other dark berries. Mouth: Very good expressiveness. A tad too alcoholic. A slight appetizing sourness. A hint of malt in the finish. This wine has evolved nicely. The bitterness has disappeared. Full bodied wine. Can be stored longer.
July 14, 2017 - Dark brick red. Dark fruit, spicy black fruit edge. Firm acid, tannic. Big wine.
June 25, 2017 - Color: Still youthful with orange reflections at the rim. Transparent ruby. Nose: Something between oranges and cherries, leather. Mouth: The tannins are much tamer now. Good expressiveness and length. But too alcoholic (15.5%). The more I drink of this wine the more unbearable it is. The alcohol spike is too much for me. I surrender. The aroma isn't that great either. Quite wishy-washy. Medium bodied wine. See also my last t.ns. where I gave much higher scores. I assume that the extract that is now missing had then absorbed much of the alcohol.
January 2, 2017 - Upon opening, this was closed up and bitter. But it improved nicely with an hour in the decanter, and was even better after 2 hours. It has some nice dark fruits on the palette along with some orange peel and tea. Tannins are present, and combined with acid creates a tartness that complements the fruit. I drank without food, and I think this would be better with a ribeye or lamb shoulder.
July 18, 2016 - I have a son, and if I ever wanted to put hair on his chest early, I would feed him this wine. Tannic as all get out, huge body, alcoholic, this is not for the meek. But it does do its own thing, with its obvious italian rusticity, leather and mushrooms and earth. I appreciate this for what it is, and provided you decant the shit our of this, you can too. Good vintage on this one too.
January 28, 2016 - Color: Not as dark and impenetrable as I remember. Slight orange reflections. Nose: Beef bouillon, blackberries, forest floor. Mouth: Consistent with the nose. After a while of breathing and together with the food I can taste cherries. By the way this is a wine made for food! It shows early signs of maturing and becoming more mellow but it is still a very tannic wine. 15.5% alc. and no wonder it can be felt but still not that bad. I gave 2 points for being off the beaten path.