L'Arquata di Alvaro 2013
(Umbria)
Cabernet Sauvignon (40%), Merlot (40%), Barbera (20%)
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Red Wine |
Score: ✧✧✧✧✭ |
![](/images/g_appearance.png) Intense ruby red and nuances of garnet red, little transparency.
![](/images/g_nose.png) Intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant, starts with hints of plum, black cherry and black currant followed by aromas of dried violet, blueberry, carob, tobacco, cocoa, leather, licorice, porcino mushroom, vanilla and menthol.
![](/images/g_taste.png) Properly tannic attack and however balanced by alcohol, full body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness.
![](/images/g_finish.png) Persistent finish with flavors of plum, black cherry and black currant.
![](/images/g_aging.png) 30 months in cask and barrique, 12 months in bottle.
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Alcohol: 14.5%
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Game, Roasted meat, Stewed and braised meat, Hard cheese
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Suggested glass ![Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines](/images/glasses/g07.gif) |
18 °C (64 °F) |
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines) |
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March 2021 |
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