Avignonesi Occhio di Pernice Vin Santo di Montepulciano 2005

TASTING NOTES
Nose: Complex, with dried plum and date, propolis, spiced gingerbread, malaga and tobacco
Palate: Sweet and spicy, with dried apricot, smoked hazelnut and hints of Christmas spice

VARIETAL
Sangiovese, known in Montepulciano as Prugnolo Gentile

WINEMAKING
Grapes dried on mats for months, then pressed into 50 litre oak caratelli for a slow natural fermentation driven by the madre, a house yeast starter passed down through generations. Aged roughly ten years in those small casks before release

REGION
Vin Santo di Montepulciano DOC, Tuscany, Italy

*One of the rarest sweet wines in Italy, and one of the slowest to make.*