Tenuta Santomè Raboso Piave Riserva

Italian Wine Scholar Class at the Texas Wine School. This wine would probably benefit from a decant despite its 12 years of age. Deep, dark garnet with a brown hue. The nose is clean, complex, developed, intense, with wild black cherry, tobacco, leather and sweet baking spices. It is aged for three years in a mix of very large chestnut casks and tonneau and some French oak in an attempt to tame the tannins - and then aged for a …