Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Zanna 1998

Illuminati (Italy)

Montepulciano
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

The wine shows a firm ruby red color, moderate transparency. The nose reveals personality with clean and intense aromas such as black cherry, cherry, raspberry, blueberry, plum, vanilla and violet. The mouth is very balanced with a good correspondence to the nose. Good body, tannins are well balanced by alcohol, with intense and good flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of plum, black cherry and blueberry. A well made wine produced with fermentation in steel tanks at controlled temperature followed by an aging for 24-26 months in casks.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Braised or stewed meat with mushrooms, Game, Roasted meat, Hard cheese
Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)
March 2003