Marvellous Morellino!
We were thrilled to see that Harry Eyres recommended our newly arrived Morellino di Scansano Podere 414 in The Telegraph on 14th July:
Recommended by Harry Eyres in The Telegraph on 14th July 2011:
"Morellino di Scansano, the quintessential wine of the Maremma, is now the Tuscan wine of choice in the chicest enoteche (wine bars) of Rome. I’ve loved morellino since I first came across it, tasting samples with my wine merchant father, nearly 20 years ago, when it was fairly new on the wine map.
What attracted me was the unique perfume – quite different from that of any other sangiovese-based wine from central Italy: enticing and voluptuous, soft dark cherry verging on plum, ripe and succulent (the climate is warmer here than in Chianti) but not hot or heavy, the opposite of tough and stringy.
Morellino is a sensualist’s wine, not a conundrum for intellectuals; loose-limbed, not tightly structured. If you think of Romans as a hedonistic lot, as I tend to, then you’ll think of it as a louche Latin wine rather than a warlike Etruscan one...
...For a thoroughly satisfactory halfway house I recommend Podere 414, made on a 2.5 hectare estate by Simone Castelli, son of the eminent œnologist Maurizio Castelli. There’s certainly power here, and a touch of oak, but the overall effect remains lively, fresh and enticing. There’s no point in morellino, at least for me, if it concentrates too hard on being impressive and forgets to be sheerly enjoyable."
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