Savaterre 'Maurizio' Sagrantino

Hand-picked fruit, 20% whole bunches, natural open ferment. Matured 18 months in Burgundian oak, unfiltered. Named to honour the late Maurizio Ugge of Aquilla, Italian food and wine importer, who introduced the winemaker (Keppell Smith) to Italian wines. The high priest of tannin, the sagrantino grape is transformed by Keppell into a plush, focused, savoury, full bodied, fine (and firm) tannic young wine, worthy of extended time in the cellar. A striking herbal thread blends in with black fruits, plum, bramble, bracken, earth and truffle which, in itself, is a complex grouping and so very different.