With fruit from young vines, the Casanova della Spinetta 2016 Sangiovese Il Nero di Casanova opens to an inky appearance with dark garnet and sepia hues. Roto-fermenters are used to extract extra color and fruit intensity, and you most certainly feel the results here in this dark, muscular and brooding interpretation. The wine is aged in large botte, and the oak tones are not too intrusive. However, the fruit remains richly concentrated and dense with blackberry, dried cherry, spice, smoke, scorched earth and tarry asphalt (which is almost too much). This wine shows a slightly aged or evolved quality to the fruit. Production is an ample 90,000 bottles.