IDDA other_regions_australia Hints of cherries

Hints of cherries

The 2015 Fleurie Abbaye Road is superb

dusty and naturally sweet finish

and yet it is elegant from its start to its finish

IDDA other_regions_australia Hints of cherriesThe 2017 Etna Rosso is almost all Nerello Mascalese with a small 10% part of Nerello Cappuccio that makes for an ideal blending partner. This was a scorching hot vintage, but Gaia Gaja and Alberto Graci tell me that compact basalt rocky soils make for a unique situation in which vine root systems can find ample humidity underground despite dry and sun drenched soil at the top level. Dig just under the surface, Gaia Gaja tells me, and the soils are