Terra di Lavoro, IGT Roccamonfina (Campania, Italy) 2008

 This producer turns out small amounts (2,500 cases/annually) of just one wine, Terra di Lavoro, from Aglianico and Piedrosso grown in estate vineyards in the mountains of northern Campania.  The 2008 is a monumental wine with great power combined with finesse and complexity.  Explosive flavors of dark minerality and black cherry nuances erupt from the glass.  An amazing purity and refinement is apparent in this still young wine.  Easy to appreciate now with its glossy tannins, it will undoubtedly evolve into a very special wine.  Some is going into my cellar.