
2010
Region
Italy › Sicily › Vittoria › Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG
Type
red · still
Grapes
Frappato, Nero d'Avola
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
1 g/L
Happy me to taste this bottle again. Sophisticated, multilayered and evolving. Mushrooms, sunflower seeds, balsamic notes, peonies, salami, earth and tobacco. Almost perfectly balanced, juicy and so quaffable. What a beautiful wine!
A bottle of Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico made in amphoras. A 60-40 blend of Nero d'Avola and Frappato growing at 230 meters above sea level on red soils of limestone-siliceous nature. The average age of vines is 25 years. Yet there is a strange thing that apparently can be explained by the outdated state of the site. According to their site, the wine was aged in Slavonian barrels. Where do they come from if COS got rid of all barrels? Mystery, isn't it? In any case, technical information is scarce.
Oh my god! Probably it's the best Cerasuolo I have ever tasted. So far, at least. The most complex, multilayered and evolving wine of the evening. No wonder the following wines were in the shadow. The bouquet begins with fried sunflower seeds but quickly begins to sing with cherry confiture, tobacco, earth, spices, salami, and peonies. With every second, it reveals something new. My advice is to avoid decanting it. Let it tell the story. Almost perfectly balanced, sophisticated and delicious. Good fruit and pleasant metallic touch only make the experience better.