2018 Tasca d'Almerita Tenuta Regaleali 'Rosso del Conte' Contea di Sclafani, Sicily, Italy (750ml)

WINEMAKER'S NOTES: 

On the nose, it has notes of Mediterranean scrub and flowers, Ripe strawberries with blackberries, and hints of tar, hay and coffee. The wine has evident wood aromas, given off slowly by toasty, fine-grained wood barrels. On the palate is elegant with high young tannins, intense aromas and a long and complex finish. Pronounced aromas, high acidity and high tannins make it capable of a long and promising evolution in the bottle. (30 years).

Blend: 53% Nero d’Avola & 47% Perricone

TASTING NOTES: 

Ripe strawberries with blackberries and hints of tar. Full- to medium-bodied with powerful tannins and a chewy and juicy finish. Very structured. One to age in your cellar. Still very young. Try after 2025.

- James Suckling, 94 pts. 

A balanced red, with good freshness and tension, featuring fine, taut tannins that back dark, focused flavors of crushed blackberry, black plum reduction, cured tobacco, vanilla and minerally accents of smoke and iron. Chewy finish. Nero d'Avola and Perricone.

- Wine Spectator, 91 pts.