The 2005 Scavigna Vigna Garrone is a menacing, dark wine imbued with melted road tar, smoke, herbs, minerals and blackberry jam. This intense, powerful wine is not for the timid, but it offers outstanding density and richness in a full-bodied style. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2015. Importer: Jan D’Amore Wines, Brooklyn, NY; tel. (917) 257-7994

Odoardi’s 2004 Vigna Garrone is fleshy and vibrant in its perfumed violets, black cherries, jammy blackberries, earthiness and sweet toasted oak. It offers superb balance and poise, with elegant, refined tannins that round out the close. Today it comes across as youthful and powerful but it should settle down in another year or two. This blend of 80% Gaglioppo, 10% Nerello Capuccio, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot spent 14 months in French oak. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2019. Importer: Jan d’Amore Wines, Brooklyn, NY; tel. (917) 257-7994

The 2003 Vigna Garrone is an opaque beauty bursting with the essence of dark cherries, scorched earth, licorice, smoke and game. It comes across as slightly wilder in its expression than the 2004 yet this big, full-bodied, generous wine will provide highly pleasurable drinking over the next decade. The Vigna Garrone is a blend of 80% Gaglioppo, 10% Nerello Capuccio, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot which spent 14 months in French oak. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2018.Importer: Jan d’Amore Wines, Brooklyn, NY; tel. (917) 257-7994