I am reviewing the Apollonio 2010 Copertino Riserva Divoto now, although I reviewed the 2011 vintage of this same wine a few years back. This is a blend of 70% Negroamaro and 30% Montepulciano from vineyards near beautiful Lecce, one of Italy's Baroque architectural gems. The wine offers ripe fruit and succulence with dried blackberry and plum. Unsurprisingly, this aged expression also shows evolved tones of dried fruit, leather and licorice. I wouldn't suggest waiting too much longer to uncork this robust Puglia red, perhaps with a marinated flank steak. This wine undergoes up to 45 days of fermentation in large Slavonian oak and later ages in French barrique for 24 months. Some 10,000 bottles were made.