Dark and brooding in personality, this is Sorrentino Vini‘s pure expression of Aglianico, a grape this estate cultivates at high elevations (from 500 to 600 meters above sea level) in the ashy volcanic soils of Vesuvius. Aged in oak for two years, the 2016 Don Paolo opens to a dark color and powerful aromas of black fruit, plum, fire pit embers and scorched earth. You can’t miss that heavily volcanic signature on this full-bodied red. 15,000 bottles were released.