"The 2019 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Riserva smolders up with a smoky mix of plum sauce, rubbed sage and camphor, dark, rich and balsamic in the glass. It’s silky-smooth and textural, blending sour cherry with citrus and a flourish of savory herbs as a staining of saline minerals adds further tension toward the close. The 2019 finishes long, potent and lightly structured, leaving a bitter blackberry tinge as salted licorice notes fade. This savory beast will need some time to blossom fully, but it will be time well spent. What a beauty." Eric Guido
Product Description:
The Montepulciano Riserva comes from a similar mix of parcels as the Cerasuolo, but from a separate harvest destined for the red. The grapes were destemmed and crushed, with spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel without temperature control. Maceration lasted 12 days, after which the skins were lightly pressed in a basket press. Aging at Praesidium is particular, playing with the push/pull of reduction and oxidation. The first 24 months of aging are in stainless steel; the second 24 months are in wood, 95% of which is large Slavonian oak cask and 5% is French tonneaux. 25% of the wood was new.
