What appears and translucently ruby in the glass packs a beguiling wallop at first take; there’s a lovely warmth with a captivating perfume of tiny red berries, dark spice, graphite and church incense lifted by balsamic notes of la macchia, the local name for the native herbal scrubland of sage, myrtle, juniper & holm oak. Persistent but not cloying, the wine is strangely delicate on the palate with ripe but not jammy fruit, neatened by fine, almost sandy tannins and gloriously lengthy acidity and minerality.