2015 Serego Alighieri Vaio Armaron Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG

Perfectly ripe aromas of black plums and black cherries, both brooding and elegant, rush out of the glass. Supported by notes of Dutch cocoa, espresso, and a dried bouquet of herbs and flowers. The lush palate is full of dark fruit flavors with fine and firm tannins and a pop of acidity.

A minimally invasive style, replete with a waft of cherry wood cask serving as an intentionally oxidative confluence with more traditional Slavonian oak. More clay in the soils here. Bitter and pithy and wild and energetic, splaying maraschino cherry, almond husk, fennel and walnut husk long and broad.