Sagrantino is a grape indigenous to the area around the town of Montefalco in Umbria, Italy. There are only about 250 acres of Sagrantino planted and only a handful of growers producing this wine. Sagrantino makes a full bodied, very tannic wine. The Novelli Montefalco Sagrantino is aged for 16 months in new French oak barrels. The alcohol content is 14%.
The color is inky black in the center with strawberry red around the edges. A touch of mushroom along with blackberry and blueberry, creme brulee and a whiff of alcohol. Nicely balanced, dark berry fruit, a bit of creamy milk chocolate, cherry cola and plum. The tannins are definitely there, but integrated into flavors, a very nice balancing act. A long cola and berry finish.
This is a big boy, with all the tannins and the 16 months of new French oak, you can probably lay this wine down for 15 years. The Novelli Montefalco Sagrantino cries out for an aged steak at one of those old school Steakhouses.
I have been looking for this wine since I went to a Sagrantino wine festival in Montafalco last fall about this time . If you have a 100% sagrantino wine it probably should sit for 7 to 10 years. The blended wines are better younger. Where can I find this to purchase ?
Where can we buy sagrantino wine in New Zealand ?