Made from 100% Nero d'Avola, the resulting wine is aged for 4 months in French barriques. The wine is ruby-red in color with intense aromas of vanilla and sweet spice. On the palate it is bursting with bright cherry fruit, balanced acidity and exotic spices. Delicious with roasted meats and hearty red sauces. It boasts a beautiful dense ruby/purple hue as well as aromas of scorched earth, black cherries, blackberries, charcoal, and graphite, full-bodied, powerful, pure flavors, and a long, heady ...

Community Tasting Notes (average 85.2 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 58 notes)

Rating: 90/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 165 on Jun-06

3WG: B+<br/><br/>aroma: strawberries. cinnamon mulling spice<br/>Taste: red berries with vanilla and spice <br/>body: medium<br/>Finish: long, berries to cinnamon <br/>Recommendation: buy it!

Yummy. Body but not over powering. Ate w/ salt baked fish.

01/01/10<br/>rose flavor good<br/>ruby tan little

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