I am in the wine bleachers as a bleacher bum misbehaving and throwing empty wine bottles at poor performers.
Luca Maroni is consistently rating most wines as close to perfection. I mean here is a 99 rated red wine. It is no Bordeaux first growth but a Rosso IGT from Puglia. Is it at some point very strange that the Liquor Commission of Ontario just keeps on flogging their wines unabashedly quoting Maroni and his celestial ratings. I suppose credibility flows in many directions. Lord Denning speak up.
The wine is a blend of three grapes namely Aglianico, Primitivo and Negroamaro and should theoretically put hair on your chest.
Aroma: Black plum, blackberry, hazelnut and Christmas fruitcake.
Palate: Concentrated not wishing to take any hostages and at 11 grams per litre of residual sugar there is some sweetness to it. However it goes down smoothly without excessive heat considering its 14.5% alcohol content courtesy of all that sugar! Kind of reminds you of Apothic Red (a great enemy of Weight Watchers) at 15 grams of residual sugar. Goes down the hatch full of black cherry a bit like a Croatian cherry nectar juice.
Personality: If you like cotton candy I’m your type of wine.
Cellarbility: Drink Now.
Food Match: Sauteed pork medallions in a lingonberry jam and red wine reduction sauce.
Price: $18 CDN (Ontario).
RKS 2024 Wine Rating: 88/100. Wine Align 87.
Comments from the Peanut Gallery: Not my style of red wine but well made if not with some mastery in taming its high alcohol. But what credibility do I have?
(Lupo Meraviglia 2021Tre di Tre, Puglia IGT Rosso, Fossalta di Pave, Italy, 14.5%, 750 mL).
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