Luigi Tecce 'Puro Sangue' 2020

Luigi Tecce 'Puro Sangue' 2020Our Tasting Note: The pronounced nose here on the Puro Sangue shows primary dark red to black fruits of black cherry, plum, blackberry, with a definitively smoky tone to the nose, savory, smoked roast beef, iron, blood, with tar, wood smoke, and tobacco (I told you this was a beast, but a chiseled one). The palate is full bodied, med+ acidity, med+ to high youthful grain tannins, the flavor intensity is dimensional, layered. The finish is long, tannic

ruby at the edges

Maceration times extend to 18 days

and a small amount of Meunier

incense and ash as the 2021 Etna Rosso Feudo Pignatone emerges from the glass

Thankfully

dried rose petals

Pépière owns 5

Bottled with 21 grams per liter of residual sugar (of which you taste a third

and sun-baked microclimate that gives the wine a distinctively wild and savory Mediterranean character

which is Grenache in Italy - this is NOT Alicante Bouchet which is a cross of grenache and petit bouschet

James Suckling (88): The drying tannins are a bit rustic

000 years (to the period in which the Elliptical Crater was formed)