Wine Review - 2012 Luna Argenta Negroamaro Primitivo Appassimento: Amarone Style Makes For Good Wine
As we go through our purchases from the NSLC Port of Wines Festival in September we continue to hit high point after high point. This wine is another award winner and is a really nice wine. A blend of Negroamaro and Primitivo grapes this wine is made in the appassimento style which is to say that grapes are dried and pressed into the wine. This is particularly popular with the Italian Amarone della Valpolicella. It adds a lot of round bold flavours to a wine that can be categorized as a little thin at times. This wine benefits from that style of winemaking. The wine is a very dark purple with mahogany edge in the glass and has very quick legs on the swirl. Really nice and it looks older than it is. You can thank the wine skins for that. Well done. There is a fiery nose with notes of sugar plums and black pepper. The beauty of the appassimento style is that body and nose. Excellent. The body is much larger than if th...