Azienda Agricola Castaldi Francesca Fara

This was a "found in the cellar" wine of which I have 3, and the previous notes had me a little concerned. Well, it was rather uninspired on the pop with little fruit and interest, as previously noted. A short bit of air (and food) did help this out a bit, fortunately, though not thoroughly. It's a light and rustic effort here for sure. Medium garnet color with bricking edges. A little tight aromatically, with tar, fresh herbs, dry leaves, …

Non-descript nose. Maybe some red fruits and a touch of spice but nothing spectacular. Nice bright cherry attack with a switch hit to dusty cherries shortly on the front end of the mid-palate. Abrupt sucker punch of tannin puts it away. I might as well have been chewing on a piece of cherry flavored oak. Ironically, like the only other tasting note at the time of writing, had with pizza. Barely worth the pizza. I feel sad for you if …

Very tannic with almost no fruit, drank with pizza, have another bottle so I will drink it again. Oh well.