Fragrant, fresh, supple.

Consistently reliable, food-friendly and a pleasure to review, this Montepulciano treads that delightful line between elegant and rustic. Expect spiced cherries, mocha, violets and vanilla, licorice and raspberry aromas. It's supple and delivers sweet berry flavours woven with spice and cedar. Medium+ bodied with attractive buoyancy, the finish is long and trails cocoa flavours.
Pair: Roasted meats, game, hard cheeses, or veggie burgers, pizza or grilled mushrooms and eggplant.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - June 2nd, 2020

Rustic, cherries, savoury.

Consistently reliable and food-friendly, this Montepulciano offers tart cherries, raspberry tea and spice with notes of straw, leather and matchstck. It's slightly more austere and leaner than I remember, but has the same rustic character. Flavours of tealeaf, espresso, bitter cocoa powder and savoury spiced mimic the nose.
Pair: Roasted meats, game, hard cheeses.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - September 19th, 2017

Fragrant, fresh, delicious.

I've been reviewing this consistently reliable and food-friendly red for nearly a decade and it's always and a pleasure.
Expect cherries in vanilla liqueur and purple flowers, coffee and concord grapes atop licorice aromas. The entry is supple and it delivers charming purple berry flavours along with wild flowers and cocoa. It's a juicy wine, singular and delicious with fine sweet tannins.
Pair with dinners of roasted meats, game, hard cheeses, or veggie burgers, pizza or grilled mushrooms and eggplant.
Pairs great with Gone Crackers Olive Oil & Cracked Pepper
 
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Wine Scores Reviewed - September 12th, 2022

Thoughtful, crunchy, savoury.
Made entirely from Passerina grapes, this thoughtful rarity offers aromas of crunchy yellow fruits, smoked lemons, wild honey, rosemary, green almonds, and mineral undertones. The savoury quality on the nose translates to the palate, more green almond, mineral, fleur de sel and citrus make an appearance.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - December 12th, 2018

Creamy, drinkable, concentrated.
This middling aromatic variety called Pecorino, offers aromas of wild honey and yellow tree fruits, beeswax, star fruit, lemon balm and white blossoms. It is creamy, a golden hue with good concentration and an oily, lanolin-like character in the mouth. A drinkable Italian white, which will be great alternative to Chardonnay.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - September 4th, 2018