2015 Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi Riserva DOCG

Aglianico, a powerful and elegant Southern Italian wine, features ripe dark cherries, tobacco, and herbs, and is recommended for cellaring to enhance its complexity.

Producer

Mastroberardino

Region

Taurasi, Campania

Country

Italy

Varietal

Aglianico

Varietal Composition

100% Aglianico

Specifications

2015

Vintage

2037

Drink By

14

%

ABV

Vinification

Hand harvested. Aged 24 months in large Hungarian oak foudres, followed by 30 months of bottle aging.

Occasional wine note

#5 on Wine Spectator's 2023 Top 100! Aglianico is called the Barolo of the South in Italy as it is Southern Italy's most powerful and elegant indigenous grape, and to qualify for the DOCG label, requires extended aging almost as stringent as Barolo. This one is indeed both big and elegant. Ripe dark cherries, tobacco, pepper, with some floral hints, smoke, mineral, and herbs. This has so much going on from start to long finish. It's tough to put down once opened and had a chance to breathe. We recommend cellaring this for a few years as it will get better with age.

What experts say about this wine

96

/

100

James Suckling

Super-elegant but really tight aglianico here with lightly peppery black fruit, colored with inky and spicy notes. With aeration, you move into the herbal zone, with fresh bay-leaf, chai and light rosemary. The palate is medium-to full-bodied and you feel all the aromas pent-up, ready to burst out. The tension here is palpable and this will need several more years before the firm tannins soften, allowing the wine to open up and flood your palate. Still be patient. Try from 2024.

96

/

100

Vinous

The 2015 Taurasi Riserva Radici is elegance personified, captivating with a deeply seductive bouquet that blends black cherries, rose petals and cloves with hints of underbrush, smoky minerals and crushed ashen stone. With each tilt of the glass, it seems to grow in both volume and depth. It unleashes waves of silken textures across the palate, carrying notes of savory cherry sauce, balsam herbs and dark, dark chocolate complicated by earth tones, as red inner florals amass toward the close. While youthfully structured, the 2015 Riserva is almost impossible to put down, mixing sweet tannins with hints of tobacco and dark fruits that seem to last for up to a minute. Bury this in the cellar and reap the rewards, as this balanced beauty is a long-distance runner. The Riserva is refined for thirty months in a combination of 60% forty-eight-hectoliter casks and 40% used barriques.

pairing recommendation

Pork

Black Pepper

Root Vegetables

Hard Cheeses

Cured Meats

2015 Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi Riserva DOCG

96

Vivino Rating
4.2

2015 Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi Riserva DOCG

750

ml

members only

$ 74.95 

Become a member

Free Shipping on orders $300+

Similar Wines You May Like

2015 Pietracupa Taurasi DOCGItaly
2015

Reds

Aglianico

2015 Pietracupa Taurasi DOCG

Pietracupa

Campania

,

Italy

$ 44.95 

750

ml

Vivino Rating

4.1

Free Shipping for orders $300+

Members Only

95

2015 Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi Riserva DOCGItaly
2015

Reds

Aglianico

2015 Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi Riserva DOCG

Mastroberardino

Campania

,

Italy

$ 74.95 

750

ml

Vivino Rating

4.2

Free Shipping for orders $300+

Members Only

96