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Passito
Montefalco Sagrantino · Italy
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Grape
- Sagrantino
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Montefalco Sagrantino
- Appellation
- Montefalco Sagrantino / Central Italy
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- sweet
Food pairing
blue cheeses · dark chocolate tart · red berry-based desserts
Rated vintages
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200890 pts
This dense dessert wine opens with subtle aromas of black fruit, prune, leather ?and spice. The palate delivers concentrated notes of blackberry, dried cherry, cinnamon and chocolate alongside firm, drying tannins that need a few more years to soften. Sip it on its own as a med…
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200788 pts
It's hard to imagine naturally tannic Sagrantino as a dessert wine but indeed this native Umbrian red grape was traditionally made in a sweet style to soften its firm astringency. Deeply red and richly concentrated, it shows chocolate, savory spice and blackberry. Drying tannins…
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200688 pts
Like all good passito dessert wines made from the Sagrantino grape, this shows firmness and structure, with aromatic characteristics of bitter chocolate and cherry liqueur.