Dark and creamy, with chocolate-covered cherry flavors, accents of dried rosemary, spiced orange peel and a base note of minerally iron and smoke. Delivers dense, plush tannins, which are wrapped in the juicy flavor profile and emerge to firm the finish. Drink now through 2028. 750 cases made, 150 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / South / Basilicata / Aglianico del Vulture Select to Add

The 2013 Aglianico del Vulture Il Sigillo is a dark and penetrating wine with a very smoky, dark and brooding personality. Give the wine a few moments in the glass to allow for the enormity of its aromas to come together. The bouquet is laced with thick and penetrating black fruit, cassis, plum and prune. There is a noticeable oak element here with baking spice and Spanish cedar. The finish is a little flat. Some 25,000 bottles were released.

An appealing note of loamy earth on the nose transitions on the palate to underscore flavors of plum cake, creamed cherry and mocha in this minerally, full-bodied red. Dusty tannins lend a burly edge to the spiced finish. Drink now through 2027. 750 cases made, 150 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / South / Basilicata / Aglianico del Vulture Select to Add

Presented in a big, heavy bottle, this wine fits its serious packaging in every sense: full, dark, dense and rich. The 2012 Aglianico del Vulture Il Sigillo offers fruit that is plump, chewy and dark. You really sink your teeth into this wine, an Aglianico worthy of the local lamb ribs, costolette di agnello alla lucana.

This is one of the most important wines made south of Campania and north of Etna today. The 2011 Aglianico del Vulture Il Sigillo flaunts its Lucano pride with deep concentration and super dark fruit and spice that contrast each other with harmony. Those characteristic mineral notes of volcanic ash and crushed granite peg this wine to an unmistakable sense of place. The finish is rich and velvety and Il Sigillo should only improve with time. Some 20,000 bottles were produced.