High quality Taurasi, make no mistake. Macerated cherry liqueur, licorice root and spruce. A sappy, punchy nose with no dearth of extract across the mid-palate. From there, things tighten up. A ferrous riff of molten rock melds with tobacco-doused tannins, gristly and drying in a savory, rather than obtuse, fashion. Some mocha oak, but not intrusive. A lilt of volatility, too, subsumed by the bolshy finish. Bury this. Drinkable now, but best from 2026.