Maso Poli Pinot Noir 2019
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Light ruby red. Intense and fine bouquet on the nose with notes of blue flowers, cherries, dried raspberries and black currants. On the palate it is dry, rich, smooth, and harmonious, confirming the aromas perceived on the nose. with a persistent fruity and peppery finish.
Suitable for meats with delicate flavors such as filets, chops and grilled meats.
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Grown between 820 and 2300 feet, this Pinot Nero shows the beauty of the warm sun and cool mountaintop nights. Dark fruit aromas of black cherry and ripe red currant merge with mineral and earth notes. The palate shows hints of well-crafted time in oak with sweet baking spices, leafy dried herbs and tart red fruits. Well balanced, high-toned and drinkable now.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
The southern part of Italy’s northeastern Alpine region, Trentino, produces quality wines from international varieties. But its most exceptional native variety, Teroldego, with plantings concentrated around the sandy, gravelly, limestone soils of its Campo Rotaliano district, makes a deep purple-hued red wine with scents and flavors of wild blackberry, herbs, espresso and cocoa.