Di Meo Taurasi Riserva Vigna Olmo 2013
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Robert
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Winemaker Notes
Luminous ruby red, dense and weighty in the glass. Very complex on the nose, with initial hints of wild berries and dry flowers and then tertiary notes of bark, tobacco, and licorice. The palate is characterized by balance and softness that give this wine the elegance and approachability to drink.
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James Suckling
A delicate and elegant Taurasi with quite a soft, ripe and enticing nose, offering red and black berries and a whiff of sweet vanilla. Full palate with tight, fine-grained tannins, coated in luxurious ripe fruit and vanilla. Still tight, but silky and very drinkable now. Delicious, in fact, but should age well for a while yet. Drink or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
Inviting aromas of black-skinned berries, leather and underbrush emerge from the glass. The savory palate offers black plum, cocoa and tobacco alongside taut, polished tannins. Drink through 2031.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Di Meo 2013 Taurasi Riserva Vigna Olmo is a full-bodied and thickly concentrated expression of Aglianico that shows extreme richness, lots of texture, fiber and a very ripe, heavy and oak-enriched style. There is a lot of fruit and phenolic weight here, making the wine specific to a pairing of grilled meats or piquant aged cheese. You need a heavy food to break apart the richness of this very extracted wine.
In the early 1980s, Erminia, Generoso and Roberto Di Meo acquired the historical estate from their parents Vittorio and Alessandrina, located in the province of Avellino, in the area of Salza Irpina. The estate, a beautiful 18th-century farmhouse that was once a hunting lodge of the Caracciolo Prince, is surrounded by gently rolling, breezy hillsides.
The goal of the three brothers was to produce wines from the most widespread native varieties in Irpinia, like Fiano, Greco, Aglianico and Coda di volpe, and promote the value of cultural and regional traditions. So they decided to plant vineyards and in 1986, they produced their first vintage.
While the Irpinia wine underwent a period of strong growth with the important accreditation of the DOCGs Fiano di Avellino, Greco di Tufo and Taurasi and the growth of a significant quality wine sector, the oenological project of the Di Meo Brothers also evolved very quickly. Besides the production of wines in the best areas of the province, they started the production of liquors, spirits and other food Irpinian products. In a few short years the company was recognized as one of the most prestigious production companies in the region.
Today the company is run by Roberto, Oenologist, Winemaker and Sales Manager, and by Generoso, promoter of “Di Meo Vini ad Arte,” a project to enhance and spread worldwide the cultural heritage of Irpinia and Campania: after all, like wine, this is a way to celebrate the family link with the territory and offer its history to contemporary taste.