Gran Maestro Primitivo di Manduria, Italy, 2019, 750ml

Dark, heavy bodied with medium strong tannins. Dried plums, walnuts, hazelnuts and leather on the nose. It starts out with a taste of ripe blackberries, roasted nuts,oak, vanilla and a hint of cheese and has a powerfully long dark chocolate and espresso finish. A magnificent Primitivo. plum oak vanilla tobacco jam black cherry dark chocolate espresso cheese sweet tobacco

Andrei Albu, vivino.com, April 2021