Athletes Of Wine -2022 “Alto! Alto!!” Rosso

Loads of fruit, deliciousness, and aromatic intrigue balanced by structure and unravelling layers of savoury complexity. Serve it with richer dishes, especially with sweet/sour characters: Tuscan chicken and grape agrodolce; roasted pork belly with hoi sin. Bright purple with ruby inflection, blackberry, raspberry, plum, anise, tobacco leaf and woody spice. Medium weight, juicy, smashable palate, just the right amount of sour cherry acidity, finishing with a refreshingly fine tannin profile....Read More...

Loads of fruit, deliciousness, and aromatic intrigue balanced by structure and unravelling layers of savoury complexity. Serve it with richer dishes, especially with sweet/sour characters: Tuscan chicken and grape agrodolce; roasted pork belly with hoi sin. Bright purple with ruby inflection, blackberry, raspberry, plum, anise, tobacco leaf and woody spice. Medium weight, juicy, smashable palate, just the right amount of sour cherry acidity, finishing with a refreshingly fine tannin profile. In life to be in the middle is sometimes seen as a bad thing but for us it means you are the best of everything, like a well-rounded student or athlete. Alto! Alto!! red should be: medium bodied; medium in aromatics (with carbonic lift, spice, herbs); medium in fruit (showing red, black and blue); and medium in structure (refreshing acidity and tannin to cut the plump fruit). Made from Sangiovese in two parts - one whole-berry dominated ferment with lots of fruit to the fore, one destemmed and crushed to bring out the structure. To round out the blend, Cab Sauv made with lots of whole berry brings characteristic blackberry & tobacco, Merlot from this block is seriously good, and has lots of mulberry notes with sophisticated tannins. - Liam O'Brien, Winemaker.

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