S.to Ippolito 2000

Cantine Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)

(Tuscany)

Syrah (50%), Merlot (50%)
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This wine's aspect is almost impenetrable and has a beautiful dark ruby red color with hints of purplish red. The bouquet is rich, clean and intense, every aroma is well recognizable and long lasting. S.to Ippolito has a valuable fruity bouquet with aromas of black cherry, blackberry, plum, black currant, black cherry jam as well as pepper and black pepper. The bouquet is completed by aromas of wood, vanilla and coconut. The wine is full bodied, is intense and has good personality, good tannins well balanced with the rest. Wood aromas are also recognizable in the mouth although they are balanced with fruity flavors. Wine's finish is fruity and persistent: a wine which is hard to forget. S.to Ippolito is produced with long maceration in skins for 20 days and the it is ages for 10 - 12 months in barrique as well as 8 months in bottle.

Alcohol: 12.5%

Hard cheese, Barbecue and broiled meat, Roasted meat, Stewed and braised meat

Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)

Issue 1, October 2002

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