Santa Lucia Tore del Moro (Red)

2020

Semi-opaque. Lots of incense, spice, pot pourri, floral and perfume. Blood orange and black cherries. Incredibly powerful and intense, decadent, leading to a remarkably fine, classy, elegant, almost lacy palate. A hint of liquorice and salinity. Quite different to many others, as this opts for a refined, elegant charm that still translates into power and intensity. Black, inky, more perfume. Tannins are well-extracted but seem to sit on a knife-edge, cutting through the fruit and alcohol but then instantly retreating into the shadows. Despite all this, it still has the ripe fruit and almost laissez-faire easy charm of Morellino rather than the sulkiness of Sangiovese further inland. Gorgeous wine.