Dark red. The captivating complex nose offers urgent aromas of red cherry dried redcurrant brown spices roasted coffee violet botanical herbs and licorice. Sweet ripe and velvety with wonderful inner-mouth perfume to the flavors similar to the aromas. Finishes long and suave but with a very firm spine. La Mattonara is a lieu-dit; this wine is made from a selection of grapes picked in Zymé?s oldest vineyards (up to 50 years old). Spends a long nine years in Slavonian oak barrels of different sizes (up to 20 hectoliters). (Drink between 2020-2034)