CASE PRICE = $47.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Notes from the Winemaker:Grape Variety: 100% Aglianico
Production area: Pietradefusi vineyards on the top of Calore hills river.
Wine-making techniques: Carefully selected and handpicked grapes. About 12 days maceration and fermentation around 28°C. Matured in French oak barrels for 14 months and then for a further 24 months in bottle.
Tasting notes: A deep ruby red color, a blooming aroma of ample ripe cherries, sweet spices, plum, tobacco, pepper, tar. Supple and silky on the palate, with concentrated texture mellowed into body richness and ripeness. Sweet and fine tannins, long fruity, spiced and toasty finish. Excellent cellaring potential, with bottle age, adding to the wine’s complexity.
Food pairings: All roast and braised meats, game, wild boar, ragout, beef fillet, rib-eye steaks, grilled lamb chop, game, spicy dishes, mushrooms, truffles and mature cheeses such as seasoned provolone, parmigiano or gorgonzola.
Ratings & Reviews
94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:"The 2005 Taurasi Pago dei Fusi is a huge, explosive wine. It possesses superb delineation of aromas and flavors to match its dark, brooding personality. Sweet balsamic notes develop in the glass, adding further complexity as the wine gradually builds towards a powerful close. The 2005 doesn't appear to quite have the finesse of the 2004, but it comes very close. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2025." - Antonio Galloni (Jun 2011)
90 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine:"A grippy, mountain red, displaying firm wild berry, spice, flint and underbrush notes tightly wound with medium tannins framing the detailed, minerally finish. Drink now through 2018. 300 cases imported." –NW (Feb 29, 2012)
92 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine (2004 vintage):"Pago dei Fusi is a distinctive wine that excels in terms of intensity and clarity. Elegant tones of tar, black fruit, tobacco, dark spice and rum cake appear immediately and slowly change form as the wine spends more time in the glass. Drying tannins make for a dramatic close." — M.L. (6/1/2011)
90+ Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (2004 vintage):"Good full ruby-purple. Very fresh, intense aromas of dark plum, violet, tobacco and loam. Then lighter on the palate than the rich nose suggests, but with good volume and depth to the floral and dark fruit flavors. Shows a distinctly old-school texture, with a leaner, more austere mouthfeel than the other Taurasi wines in the Terradora portfolio. But there's enough underlying structure to make this cellarworthy, and it certainly needs time to develop a little more flesh. Finishes long, with building but fine-grained tannins." - Ian D'Agata (Mar/Apr '11)
