A really delicious velvety smooth red wine made from the Montepulciano grape variety in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. Deeply coloured this a wonderfully fruity fragrant red. A brilliant party wine, but it also has enough structure to mean it is great with red meats, especially lamb dishes. In the press: "Dark and brooding in colour, this aromatic red is a juicy mouthful of sweetly ripe, blackberry fruitiness; its rusticity tempered by a twist of damsony acidity." Anthony Rose, The Independent, 6 March 2010 (2008 vintage)