The 2018 Taurasi is velvety and darkly saturated with an extracted taste profile that puts black plum, blackberry preserves and tarry flavors front and center. The wine presents a veritable wall of those black fruit aromas, but it also softens with time, thanks to budding tertiary tones of spice, cured leather and earth. The leather aroma lingers longest, thanks to 18 months in oak. Some 100,000 bottles were released.