100% Nero d’Avola from 30-year-old vines trained in red sandy clay soils—this helps provide the wine with softer tannins, aided by destemming and almost two years in oak. Ripe plums, chili pepper, wet tobacco, and black cherries and currants collide on the nose, with dark licorice, tart dark cherry, ashy charcoal and fresh soil across the palette. Fruit-forward and robust but elegant and fresh; refinement meets the muscular grit of classic Nero. A wine near and dear to Arianna’s heart that she feels speaks of Sicily—a little wild, a little contemplative, full of warmth, and contrasts.