Allegrini Amarone 1997

Deep red, garnet rim.

Smoke/truffle, amaretto, prune, black raspberry, maple syrup, dried herb nose. This just keeps giving - tobacco, soy sauce, cherry jam... I opened this 1/2 hour ago and didn't get anything interesting on the nose.

Intense, not quite sweet, textural impression. Grainy sensation of extract, but not creamy either. Alcohol shows a bit throughout the experience. Sounds stupid, but it's kind of like cherry jam without the (additional) sugar. Truffle/earth shows too, but the aromatic complexity is not (yet?) matched in the mouth. Mild tannin eventually becomes noticeable.

Day 4 - Still packed and complex aromatically. Similar in the mouth too, with alcohol still showing.

This may never die.

$50 on release