2013 Castello dei Rampolla ' d'Alceo' Toscana IGT Champagne Cool raspberry

Cool raspberry

Savory secondary notes of dried sage leaf

with nicely integrated acidity

but is going to need some serious bottle age to shine

crushed blueberries and eucalyptus over a core of preserved plums

2013 Castello dei Rampolla ' d'Alceo' Toscana IGT Champagne Cool raspberry"Readers should do whatever they can to get their hands on a few bottles of the 2013 d'Alceo. Seamless and voluptuous in the glass, it is an epic wine that embodies all the qualities that make these terraced vineyards in Panzano so special. Blackberry jam, crme de cassis, plum, licorice and spice meld together in the glass, but it is the wine's textural intensity that elevates it into the realm of the profound. The 2013 has been nothing short of