The Mustilli 2017 Sannio Sant'Agata dei Goti Aglianico Cesco di Nece is a tight and nervous wine with tart berry and wild cherry aromas backed by bracing acidity and a lean-bodied approach. The wine is full of energy and tension, requiring a cheesy dish of lasagna with extra mozzarella. This wine represents a very hot and dry vintage, but you'd hardly notice. Some 9,000 bottles were made.

Cesco di Nece is a dark, inky Aglianico that opens with aromas of dried tobacco, licorice and bitter chocolate. It’s a bruiser wine with dark extraction and rock-solid structure.——M.L.(6/1/2011)—— 90