2018 Barrua Isola dei Nuraghi

The 2018 Barrua is hauntingly dark and intense, as sweet sage and smoke give way to graphite-tinged plums and rum-soaked currants. This is texturally deep, nearly creamy in feel, with a polished wave of sleek black fruits underscored by savory herbs and minerals that slowly saturate. There is much complexity within, yet the 2018 remains youthfully poised, tapering off long and potent. Cocoa and medicinal blackberry suggestions slowly fade. This is a drop-dead gorgeous vintage for Agricola Punica's Barrua.