TASTING NOTES:
Color: deep dark ruby red with purplish hues.
Nose: marvelous scents of cherry, prunes, mulberries, blackberries and blackcurrants stand out followed by a duet with fine hints of rhubarb, cinchona, pepper, tobacco, nutmeg and dark chocolate entwined with nuances of minerals and undergrowth.
Palate: power, elegance, lively tannins, matchless softness, freshness, all blended into a balanced and harmonious whole that overwhelms the palate seducing with its limpidity and extraordinary persistence and polish typical of a great wine.
Characteristics: it is blessed with the fortunate fate of the best, of those who win awards and prizes and who others often try to vainly copy; it is a due tribute of love and respect for Nero d’Avola, Sicily’s greatest red grape, which achieves its climax in this interpretation.
MATURATION: 12 months in French and American durmast barriques
MATURATION BOTTLE: 6 months
- ALCOHOL: 14.5 % vol.
PH: 3.42 (average)
TOTAL ACIDITY: 6.50 g/l (average) - ** Only 1 in Stock **
Bright red. Perfumed aromas and flavors of red cherry, minerals, underbrush and licorice. Light and lively for such a big wine, with only a trace of alcohol-derived warmth emerging on the back end. Well done. (14.5% alcohol)- Ian D'Agata, Vinous Media 91 Points
The 2013 Nero d'Avola Harmonium is a rich and thickly layered red that puts big emphasis on new oak. Those smokey oak tones feel heavy and bulky. The wine's finer nuances are completely overwhelmed. Black cherry, tar, toasted chestnut, leather and pipe tobacco are the forceful aromas that give this wine its massive muscle power. There is tight oak astringency on the finish. - Robert Parker 87 Points
