Terra Vita Vinum, Bigottiere

Terra Vita Vinum, BigottiereNA

elegant and admirably pure nose of red and blue pinot fruit trimmed in spice and violets leads to cool and equally pure middle weight flavors that possess a velvety mouth feel before terminating in a precise and persistent finish

An ultra-elegant nose exhibits a broad range of spice and floral elements on the black cherry and plum-suffused aromas

Winemaker Vincent Bache-Gabrielsen is a huge fan of Petit Verdot

there is very good freshness and verve to the nicely delineated medium weight flavors that are also very dry and slightly austere

“these vines feature loose

laced with black pepper and clove

The rich but sleekly textured medium-bodied flavors possess plenty of dry extract that buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the minerally and powerful finish

The 2017 vintage in Margaret River was cool and wet

perhaps because of the extraction and/or cooperage

and their younger brother Giovanni

red and dark berries and game to be appreciated

The lush and very rounded medium-bodied flavors possess good mid-palate fat before terminating in a slightly edgy and tangy finish that is just enough to cut the length somewhat short today