Feudo Maccari Saia 2018

Corriere della Sera

GardiniNotes.com

WinesCritic.com

Deep and intense, it offers captivating mixed floral and fruity notes that fill the glass with lavender, agapanthus flowers, ripe dates, cloves and juniper berries. The intensity of the background gives a nuance of sour cherries in alcohol, cedar in pieces and dark chocolate. Full body, tannins of incredible quality and a precise and elegant finish

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James Suckling

Sweet and sour-cherry with walnut and toasted-oak aromas that follow through to a full body with juicy fruit and chewy tannin on the palate. Savory. Smoky meat at the end with lovely fruit.

DoctorWine

Natalie Maclean

From the Sicily wine region, Feudo Maccari Saia 2018 Nero D'avola is a rich and robust 100% Nero D'avola with dark cherry, tart berry, smoked meat, nutty and toasty oak spice flavours juicy and vibrant on the palate. Tannins are chewy.

Robert Parker

Here is another pure expression of Nero d'Avola that aspires to bring us the most sophisticated and nuanced approach to a grape that is too often relegated to basic workhorse functions that are far below its potential. Wines like this have successfully carved out a space for high-end Sicilian reds in retailers across the world. The Feudo Maccari 2018 Sicilia Saia is proud and generous, with thick layers of dark fruit folded into soft oak and spice. This release of 65,000 bottles tastes great now, straight out of the gate, so there isn't much need to wait longer.

Falstaff

Dark shining ruby with a tendency to garnet. Restrained, yet spicy nose, lightly of cherry compote and raspberry syrup. Compact on the palate with delicate fruit melting, spans a fine fan, rich in structure and with good length.

Veronelli

Wine & Spirits Magazine

Winewherever, Rasmus Christensen

Nero d’Avola har taget løbetøjet på. Stramt og tætsiddende. De overflødige kilo er for længst slidt af, og tilbage står en veltrænet vin med rank holdning. Kraftfuld syre, fine noter af krydderier og syrlige mørke bær. Her er der fart på.

Mad og Monopolet

Sicilien er kendt for vine med masser af fylde, varme og bløde udtryk. Denne Saia er lige efter bogen. Duft af modne jordbær, kirsebær, brombær, eg, tobak, skovbund og et hint af kanel. I munden er den fyldig, rund og har en skøn frugtsødme, som holdes i balance af modne tanniner. 1 FL. 259,95/ BEDSTE PRIS V/ 6 FL. 119,95

Wine Spectator

Candied violet and spice aromatics on the nose accent flavors of black raspberry preserves, red licorice, fig cake and loamy earth in this fresh, fragrant and medium- to full-bodied red. Fine-grained tannins emerge to firm the finish.

Vinous

The 2018 Nero d'Avola Saia is dark and rich with sweet herbs, tobacco and balsamic spice giving way to ripe plums. Its fleshy textures envelope the palate in an intense wave of ripe black fruits, balanced by brisk acids and saline-mineral tones that add a more grippy feel toward the close. Notes of sage and blackberries linger long through the finale, over a coating of round tannins. The 2018 is showing very nicely, but it should also mature well through medium-term cellaring.

Michael Godel

Saia is a distinctly southern Italian name and more than likely a version of Isaiah, a.k.a. 8th-century B.C Israelite prophet. You might take a sip and imagine the verse “arise, shine, for your light has come,” and that would do justice to a nero d’avola of more than ample energy. That said it also breathes deeply, acts meditative and reaches deep into the ground for complexity. A tale of two varietal worlds but truth is the acids and fruit are equally expressive, mostly supportive and do quite admirably well together. A touch caky and barrel woody with no shortage of vanilla, lavender and graphite. Gainful and plentiful nero ultimately speaking and one to cellar for a few to five years.

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