Terrazza d’Isula - Niellucciu

A personal import from Corsica - I brought this bottle back from Marseille. Tasting it in Brighton with Terry’s Petits Farcis, the wine immediately recalled that hot night in Sartène exactly four Saturdays ago. The wine is surprisingly light in colour in the glass, tannic but not harsh. We made the dominant taste raspberry and not blackberry, which was a surprise for a red wine from France. The Nielluccio grape varietal’s common heritage with the Sangiovese was more apparent in the neutral situation back in England than the bottle of the same wine that I tasted in Marseille.