2019 CESANESE

TRY ME IF YOU LOVE: Rioja or Cote du Rhone.

ABV: 13.5%

GRAPES: 100% Cesanese

TASTING NOTES: Deep garnet. Intense and gracefully aged bouquet of black cherries, red plum, fig, with herbal flavours of tobacco, thyme, oregano and peppery spiciness. On the palate its powerful, mouth-filling, with fine grained tannins and balanced fruit.

PAIRS WITH: Great with Lamb, burgers, venison, pasta bolognese.

SERVE ME: Medium bodied red so room temperature. 

Ômina Romana is a family-run winery founded by the Börner family in 2007. When they had to decide where to start their business, they settled on the area around Velletri, among the lush volcanic hills of the Castelli Romani overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 40 km south-east of Rome.