The 2011 Taurasi is a powerful and determined full-bodied red to pair with grilled or roasted meat dishes. It opens to dark fruit intensity with lots of cinnamon, toast and sweet baking spice. Indeed, the oak is almost too much of a good thing, as it masks much of the primary fruit. This wine undergoes up to four years in oak, including new barrique and cask. Fruit is sourced from 40-year-old vines. Some 20,000 bottles were released.