Salice Salentino Rosso Riserva Selvarossa 2000

Cantine Due Palme (Italy)

Salice Salentino (Apulia)

Negroamaro (90%), Malvasia Nera (10%)
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This Salice Salentino shows a brilliant ruby red color and nuances of ruby red, little transparency. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of black cherry and plum followed by aromas of blueberry, blackberry, vanilla, tobacco, licorice, star anise, clover and cinnamon. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a tannic attack and pleasing roundness, however balanced by alcohol, full body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of black cherry, plum and blackberry. A well made wine. This Salice Salentino ages for 12 months in barrique followed by at least 4 months of aging in bottle.

Alcohol: 14%

Game, Roasted meat, Stewed and braised meat, Hard cheese

Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines)

Issue 39, March 2006

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