2018 Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT Teroldego "Gran Masetto", Trentino, Italy

Nutty and tobacco woody, also sooty aroma with aromas of partly dried black berries, earthy notes, a little dried herbs, root vegetables, coffee grounds, malt and juniper. Ripe, partly preserved and dried, sweetish fruit with slightly bitter, nutty and a little sooty wood spice, crumbly, sandy, slightly drying tannin, coffee grounds, juniper, herbs and malt on the palate, abundant but quite well integrated alcohol, dark chocolate, a little muted, drying and at the same time sweetish, alcoholic finish with lots of bitter wood, sultana notes, malt and ethereal spice.

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