2019 Morgante, Don Antonio, Nero d'Avola Riserva, Sicily

2019 Morgante, Don Antonio, Nero d'Avola Riserva, Sicily

2019 Morgante, Don Antonio, Nero d'Avola Riserva, Sicily

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The 2019 Morgante, Don Antonio, Nero d'Avola Riserva, Sicily was a Merchant's Pick

Found ONLY at COZY trattorias!

June 11, 2024

Turn your dining room table into your favorite neighborhood trattoria!

After cutting his teeth at Antinori, Riccardo Cotarella is single-handedly putting Sicilian wines on the map. 

As a winemaker at Don Antonio, he has created THE benchmark Nero d'Avola against which all others are judged.  

It is no wonder Riccardo is one of the most sought-after wine consultants in the industry.

This is one of those wines you discover at a cozy trattoria and say to the waiter after your first sip, "Where can I buy this wine?!” 

This is one of the bottles that symbolizes the Sicilian Wine Renaissance that started a few decades ago. The Morgante 2019 Sicilia Nero d'Avola Riserva Don Antonio is a real beauty with bold lines and big intensity. The inky and extracted style does evoke a winemaking style that was popular during the first decade of the new millennium, but Don Antonio pulls off that style with pride and confidence. There is plenty of black cherry and baked plum with spice, tobacco and tarry smoke over a full-bodied style.Robert Parker

With five years of bottle age, Don Antonio's Riserva Nero d'Avola is gorgeous with gripping blue and black fruits. 

2019 was a sensational vintage throughout Europe.  

Utterly captivating now, it can still age for ten years with ease.  Feel free to enjoy it throughout that time with a wide variety of cuisine:  pair with grilled octopus, rosemary roasted pork loin, chicken saltimbocca, pasta alla Norma, garlic caper baked salmon, or anything grilled.  

This wine is the pinnacle of wines from Sicily and has endless possibilities.

Extremely Limited.

Cheers!

MP

Utterly Captivating Sicilian Red • The Pinnacle Nero d'Avola!

By David Gettenberg

Producer: Morgante

Country: Italy

Region: Sicily

Subregion: Others

Varietal: Nero d'Avola

Vintage: 2019

Size: 750ml

Code: W00262-2019-750