Full of smoky, ripe black fruit flavours with a touch of cassis and herbs; it's quite an intense and layered red. While mostly matured in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks to preserve the fresh primary flavours a small proportion was aged in American oak barriques and this lends a subtle vanilla influence and gives a nicely rounded structure. Made entirely from Aglianico, the main red variety grown in this part of Campania, on poor volcanic soils at around 500 metres above sea level. It's a wine that can quite happily be drunk on it's own, buy it also goes really well with things like barbecued lamb, or even a mushroom risotto.