Name of Wine: Aglianico di Taurasi Boccella 2005

Producer: Boccella

Summary: Rich, powerful, deep with fruit, earthiness and grace notes of florality. An excellent Aglianico di Taurasi. An organic or biologic wine. Wine Advocate 89

Alcohol: 14%

Location/appellation: Castelfranci (AV) / Aglianico di Taurasi DOCG

Grape varieties: 100% Aglianico

Exposure: Southwest

Altitude: 600 metres/1800 feet above sea level

Soil: Clay and limestone marl with rich humus

Vineyard Management & Training: Old vines (45 years) trained with traditional Avellinese pergola method. Yield: 40 quintales per hectare

Vinification: Hand-harvested and -selected grapes for this top-level wine. Traditional destemming, maceration for 15 days, hand pressing, natural-cold stabilizing, no fining or filtering. Fermentation takes place in open casks and steel with native yeasts. Spends 18 months in new French oak, 18 more in bottle.

Smells & Tastes: Very complex set of aromas and flavors. This is a powerful, long-lived wine that provides even more intense perfumes and flavors of cloves, black pepper, earth and black cherries. Violets too? Big as this wine is, it has a "purple-flower" sort of taste, adding a sensuous quality to is Important structure. Truly a vin de garde