San Biagio

Very ripe red-berry and cherry fruit mixes with fragrant, green cardamom-stained oak to give a pleasant, sweet-fruit effect. Medium-to full-bodied with very fine, fruit-coated tannins that create an almost syrupy texture, though tightening up at the end. Difficult to predict where this is going, but it’s approachable now. Drink or hold.

Subdued aromas evoking underbrush, French oak and violet slowly emerge from the glass. The assertive palate offers sour cherry, sage and orange peel alongside grainy tannins that leave a rather astringent finish. Drink 2024–2029. Kerin O’Keefe