91pts James Suckling

Complex nose of ripe black fruits, iodine, spice and toasted coconut. Medium- to full-bodied with a tasty, savory palate, driven by well-integrated tannins and persistent fruit. Fresh to the end, where a little hint of walnut-shell seems finally to betray its age. Drink now.

Tasting Notes

Deep ruby red colour with garnet hints. It presents an intense bouquet opening with lovely ripe plum, blackcurrant and morello cherry notes, finishing spicy on black pepper, vanilla and tobacco. The mouth is soft and enfolding, with smooth tannins and a pleasant elegant and dry finish.

A fine companion for rare-cooked red meat, game-birds and mature cheese.

About the Wine

It was created in the mid eighties to celebrate the Montepulciano variety of vine, and an area close to the sea with highly calcareous soils, using methods based on very strict selection of grapes in the vineyard and what were, at least for then, modern techniques of vinifcation and ageing. The name Cùmaro is a tribute to Mount Conero, komaros in Greek, which means ‘arbutus’: an ever- green shrub which grows freely in its woodlands. Since 2004 the wine has been entitled to the appellation “DOCG (Guaranteed and Controlled Denomination of Origin) Conero Riserva”.

Vineyard Notes

The vineyard from which Cùmaro originates is situated on the edge of the municipality of Osimo, facing south-east, at a height of about 150-200 meters above sea level. The terrain, which started out as marine formations from the Pleiocene-Pleistocene era, consists of very deep, chalky loams soils.