Montepeloso, Gabbro, IGT

Still alive. Dark fruit notes with chocolate, cocoa. Good length with sweet ending.

Crystalline dark garnet color to a very thin clear meniscus. Lovely nose of violets, tar, cedar, sweet herbs and cassis. Quite a compelling palate. Initial entry is cool black fruits of good intensity, but also in a medium weight frame nicely balanced by the clean acidity. Long and lifted mid palate defined b,y the acidity but also with some dried herbs that ends with very firm chewy tannins and some bitter dark cacao (oak tannin?). I'm not familiar with the …

Finally coming into its own. The previous times I had this it was tight.