Following Stefano Frascolla's suggestion during our virtual tasting session via Zoom, I tasted this wine immediately after the far more approachable Rosso dei Notri. The Tua Rita 2018 Case Due brings us up a level in complexity, although the wine falls flat and shallow quicker than expected. The wine offers a good sounding board from which we can go on to taste the estate's top wines such as Redigaffi and Giusto di Notri. The blend is Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, and although this wine was born as a private-label project, it is now commercially available. This vintage takes an extra moment or two to open, and it definitely shows more loosely knit or tertiary fruit tones with black plum, dried blackberry, spice and cured leather. Those evolved characteristics appear distinctly in this vintage. The wine was bottled in August of last year, with some 30,000 bottles produced, and is already on the market. I'm going to suggest a near-term drinking window so that you can capture the fresher side of that fruit.