The 2010 Montefalco Sagrantino Arquata lacks the extreme directness and focus you usually get with this super tannic grape from Umbria in central Italy. This wine instead offers a more relaxed and broad-shouldered bouquet with ripe blackberry, prune, smoke and exotic spice. The wine is aged in both tonneaux and large Slavonian oak casks for 30 months and it spends another year finding balance thanks to 24 months in the bottle.