Description
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James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
This shows notes of ripe black cherries and wild berries with dark chocolate and spices. Hot stones and ashy notes, too. Almost tarry undertones. Full and intense and very complete with finely polished tannins and sleek, silky texture. Deep dark-fruited and chocolaty character with a lingering finish.
Bocca d’Orzo, with the adjacent district of San Lorenzo, has always been esteemed as one of the most important Contradas of Etna. Three years ago (2017) we discovered a well hidden “island”, completely surrounded by the flow which, in some way, was spared. And within it the last miraculously survived Bocca d’Orzo vineyard. After unspeakable negotiations with the four owner brothers, last year we managed to purchase the parcel. And immediately I decided to add the Sicilian epithet “dagala” to its name, which roughly means “island” or, in wine language, the equivalent of a Clos. The first vintage produced, 2019, will be bottled in 2021. It has made us three barriques of superlative wine, among the absolute best of the year, thus deserving all the effort put into buying what, to all intents and purposes, is a real “Monopole”.
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