Country: Italy / Bocca della Verità
Variety: Primitivo Southern Italy
Winery: Cantine De Falco / Primitivo del Salento
This opens with aromas of wood shop, toast, blue flower and spearmint. The lean palate offers toasted oak, dried blackberry and a whiff of clove alongside angular, astringent tannins that dry out the finish. It lacks the fruit richness to stand up to the oak.