The bouquet on the 2019 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Silineo opens like you're chiseling into an ashen stone to find a mix of black currants and exotic curries. It's soft-textured, more lifted and finessed than expected, with juicy blackberry fruits offset by sour citrus and savory herbal tones. Grippy tannins linger under an air of violets and lavender as the 2019 finishes structured, yet not severely so. Silineo is primarily Sangiovese with a bit of Merlot and Corolino. It spends seven months refining in tonneaux, followed by another eleven months in large Slavonian oak casks.

Here's a new submission from Fattoria del Cerro. The 2019 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Silìneo is a robust, full-bodied wine with black fruit, tobacco, scorched earth, potting soil and black olive. There is a slightly rustic quality to this wine that fits nicely into its concentrated style. It delivers most of its intensity in an up front and immediate manner. This is a well-priced wine available in a big production of 550,000 bottles.