Buttafuoco

As I mentioned in the blog about Sangue di Giuda, there is another grape using the same grapes but made into a still dry wine, which I tried immediately afterwards. This is the wine - Buttafuoco (literally sparks) and these two names are actually subzones of Oltrepo Pavese as well as being DOC names. Although they were made from the same grapes, the two styles presented two quite different faces of that blend. This wine had seen wood, which was not evident in the sweet semi-sparkler. The colour was also much deeper in this wine in which tannins are also very much in the picture.The berry fruit was similar in both wines.

 A deep ruby, with a berry woody nose, the Buttafuoco showed berry fruit and tannins on the palate, with acidity appearing just before swallowing, giving an acid tannic backbone, in which the tannins had disappeared by the finish in which only acid remains for support.