Feudo Arancio Riserva 2020

The key red variety in Sicily is Nero d’Avola and this is a delicious example. The team use stainless steel for maturation of 30% of the wine, to retain fruit character and freshness, while the remaining 70% spends ten months in French oak barrels. Before release, the wine gets another year resting in bottle in the cellar. The wine has hints of development, but it retains freshness and life. Dark maroon in colour, the nose offers chocolate, mushrooms, smoked meats, tobacco leaves, blackberries, licorice and cassis. Balanced, focused and seamless, there is a line of fine acidity leading through to silky tannins. A ten year proposition.