Pizzato Reserva Alicante Bouschet 2021 -33%OFF

• Grape Variety: 100% Alicante Bouschet (a teinturier grape with red flesh and skin).
• Region: Vale dos Vinhedos, Serra Gaúcha, Brazil.

Produced from a grape (a cross between Petit Bouschet and Carignan) whose pulp is an exceptionally deep purple and rarely grown outside Portugal, this is a fine single varietal example of ‘Ali B’ from southern Brazil.

This is another fabulous red produced by Flavio Pizzato, fifth generation winemaker at the family-run Pizzato winery situated in the Vale dos Vinhedos district of the Serra Gaúcha hills in southern Brazil.

TASTING NOTES

It's still relatively rare to see a varietal Alicante Bouschet, one of the tienturier varieties that has deep red flesh, making it a useful blending component to add colour to a wine, but in a few places including the Alentejo and here in Brazil, it is celebrated and making excellent wines. The colour is suitably saturated and dark, and the aromas are of spicy oak, plum and and grilled meat. There's a direct, smooth and mouth-filling rush of dark, earthy black fruit on the palate, with grippy but ripe tannins and a nice edge of bittersweet cocoa and plum skins to give bite. Despite a modest 13% alcohol it's a big, full-on style with plushness and oaky depths to spare