Color: This wine tend to be deeply coloured, a deep ruby red.
Palate: Has intense berry-fruit flavours, a slight taste of iodine or saltiness. It’s reasonably full-bodied with well mannered tannins, and has dark chocolate and graphite characters along with light notes of spicy cedar. Shows attractive blackcurrant and wild raspberry aromas with touches of eucalyptus and liquorice.Again, the Castel Firmian label from the Mezzacorona co-op provides their top wines and this Lagrein is a fine example. This is from the Trentino Alto Adige region in northeast Italy. A very dark magenta, this is quite a herbal style – perhaps a touch rustic for some, but time in the glass (or a decanter) moderates this. There are notes of warm earth, tomato bushes, blackcurrants, even hints of raisins, animal skins, spices, licorice, fungal notes and dark chocolate. A supple texture but the wine does lead consumers to a finish with plenty of grip from abundant, very fine tannins. A wine of medium length with good structure and fine balance, this will prove to be attractive over the next six to eight years.
92 pts - Jeni Port (Wine Pilot)Lagrein, as always, comes to the glass in deep, impenetrable shades of purple. Flavours and intensity are also deep, dark and inky. This is a grape which calls Trentino-Alto Adige in northeast Italy home and offers a challenge to winemakers with its high tannins. Firm, assertive tannins are a feature of this wine, but they are matched by the intensity of dark fruits and spices. It’s not a battle, it’s a partnership. Black plum, black berries, black cherry, dark spices, briar, ink, dried herb scents offer an unmistakable Italian Lagrein introduction. There’s an undoubted richness to the flavours that follow, matched nicely to layers of savoury leather, earth and smoked meats, but they remain in harmony with yet more layers of pan forte, dark chocolate, and high tone spices to follow. Complex? You bet.
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