This has a deep and opulent fruit character offering ripe plums, dark berries, baking spices, walnuts and hints of tar. Full-bodied, spiced and dark-fruited with a broad tannin structure. Very fine and polished finish with chalky minerality at the end. Lingering and even. Drink or hold.

While the French oak veneer is palpable, the quality of fruit beyond cannot be denied. Dried tobacco, camphor, nori and saturated dark fruit persuasions. The tannins are massaged into a smooth, smoky sheath. A modern package, but a good one. A clip of new barrique across the finish. Drink or hold.

A richly fragrant and savory red, offering lots of mesquite smoke and grilled beef aromas up front, with a sanguine underpinning to the notes of dried black currant, dried flowers, mocha and anise. Medium- to full-bodied but fresh and balanced, feeling light on its feet throughout. Shows fine tannins on the finish. Drink now through 2027. 350 cases made, 150 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / South / Taurasi Select to Add

The Donnachiara 2017 Taurasi Riserva is very broad, rich and powerful. This hot-vintage wine puts it all out there, and it's a lot to take in. Plummy dark fruit and blackberry pie are followed by sweet oak and cinnamon. The oak tapers out on the palate to reveal soft tannins with baker's chocolate or tobacco. Like other Taurasi wines from 2017, it's almost too much. Some 6,000 bottles were released.

A finely crafted red, with supple tannins providing a focused frame for flavors of ripe black currant and plum fruit, savory dried thyme, star anise and loamy earth. Medium- to full-bodied and elegant, presenting a lasting, fragrant finish. Drink now through 2030. 250 cases made, 125 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / South / Taurasi Select to Add