Good full deep red. Enticing aromas of ripe strawberry, mocha, brown spices and fine old leather, with minerals surfacing with air. Precise and penetrating on the palate, with the strawberry and raspberry flavors complicated by a hint of exotic fruits and spices; I think this will go a little balsamic with bottle age. Finishes long and creamy. Made from 75 years old vines, and aged 18 months in new French oak tonneaux, this special anniversary edition is also sold in a bottle sporting a dark label, markedly different from Fucci’s usual white and grey one. Only 2,500 bottles made, from the original vines that started off the Fucci’s estate glorious winemaking course. (ID)

Elena Fucci always comes out with some of my favorite wines from the Vulture volcano. Despite the heat of the vintage, the 2017 Aglianico del Vulture Titolo comes across as more closed and rigid at first. It takes a few moments to open in the glass and then becomes very generous and expressive. I can't help but recommend a few years in the cellar before you pop the cork. Black fruit is followed by inky tar, resin and asphalt. The Titolo is tightly rolled into one firmly textured and tightly knit expression that truly blossoms when it breathes. (ML) 92+

An elegant, savory red, with a sanguine edge and a loamy underpinning to the dried currant and fig, woodsy spice and wild sage flavors. Compact and finely knit, with dense tannins firming the finish. (AN)