The Morgante 2020 Sicilia Nero d'Avola is a fun and versatile wine to pair with roast chicken with a side of fried potatoes. The wine has a very ripe side with black plum and blackberry confit. The tannins are soft and add volume to a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel. This is a big production of 150,000 bottles.

The Morgante 2018 Sicilia Nero d'Avola is a smooth and soft rendition that reveals the ripe cherry aromas associated with the sun-drenched heart of the Mediterranean. Those dark fruit aromas are duly followed by scorched earth, black olive and toasted almond. This is a nicely put-together Sicilian red that drinks easily, especially with a snack of focaccia and prosciutto. This was a 200,000-bottle production.

The 2017 Sicilia Nero d'Avola is very characteristic of the grape, and this is a feat that the team at Morgante seems to nail almost every year. I consider these wines to be some of the most varietally true expressions you can find. The wine opens to a medium-dark color with garnet highlights followed by aromas of dark, almost cooked cherry with scorched earth, black olive and a light touch of wild Sicilian fennel. Drink this wine quickly while those Nero d'Avola characteristics are most intense. They produced 227,000 bottles, and you get great value.

Here's a solid entry-level red offered at an unbeatable low price. The mid-weight 2016 Sicilia Nero d'Avola shows a steady and clean delivery of red cherry and berry aromas with light spice, cola and green olive. There is a point of sour fruit on the finish that is characteristic of Nero d'Avola. Some 250,000 bottles were made.

This is an excellent value buy. The 2014 Sicilia Nero d'Avola delivers a pure and clean expression of the grape that is free of any extra bells or whistles. The wine focuses on those characteristic aromas of bramble, wild berry, black olive, toasted pistachio nut and white fennel that you get with Nero d'Avola in its purest form. This grape underlines the wild side of this indigenous variety.