Azienda Agricola Sergio Arcuri Cirò Aris Riserva

PnP. Fully a half step better than the bottle of nearly two years ago "A delicious wine offering notes of pomegranate/cherry Kool-Aid, etc. Stone fruits, soil, some dusty leather. Medium (-) body, fresh acids, some mild tannic bitterness that's spot on in this context. Most will likely find it too strange, I/we enjoyed it on a warm summer eve with a slight chill and antipasti. Still developing so give it 30 minutes of air to get it going; another 4-6 …

Sergio Arcuri is definitely a top player when it comes to red wines from Cirò. This wine is made from Gaglioppo grown in the Piane Di Franze vineyard planted in 1980. It is vinified is concrete with just 5 days of maceration. Here he manages to winkle out a quite pretty expression of the often very earthy and rustic Gaglioppo. It is the wild raspberries, sunripe strawberries and red cherries that sits in the front seat and the notes of …

A white wine disguised as a (pomegranate/cherry Kool-Aid colored) red. Stone fruits, soil, some dusty leather. Medium (-) body, fresh acids, some mild tannic bitterness that's spot on in this context. Most will likely find it too strange, I/we enjoyed it on a warm summer eve with a slight chill and antipasti. Still developing so give it 30 minutes of air to get it going; another 4-6 years at this level. The 14,0% abv comes across more like 13,0-13,5 max, …