Umani Ronchi Jorio O 2019 Montepulciano d 'Abruzzo

Umani Ronchi Jorio O 2019 Montepulciano d 'Abruzzo

 

 

-Umani Ronchi Jorio O 2019 Montepulciano d 'Abruzzo

 

Purchase Info:

Appx. 15,000won

Nov-2021

Homeplus Korea

 

Grape Variety: Montepulciano

 

Manufactured Country: Italy

 

ABV: 13%

 

Brief Evaluation: Easy Red Wine with Flavors of Dark Red Fruit, Oak, Leather, Wet Soil, and fetidness, Medium Tannin and Body, Slight High Acidity, and Dryness

 

Who's it for?: Those who want budget priced and easy red wine with flavors of dark red fruits and oak

 

Repurchase Intention: Yes

 

-Tasting Review

 

Right after opening

The deep ruby-colored wine has scents of dark red fruits(cherry, plum, berries), oak, leather, and wet soil. Oak smell increases with time, and the fruit smell seems to attenuate relatively. The smell of cat piss keeps getting mentioned in other reviews, which must have been caused by wet soil and leather. The overall aroma is modest and straightforward.

 

One can find similar components in taste. The fruit taste comes first, then dried oak, wet soil, leather, fetidness, and bitterness of dark chocolate follow. The dark chocolate note is combined with moderate tannin, which causes the mouth to be stuffy.

 

After 1~3 hours

The fetidness mentioned decreases, but the fruit scent with high acidity stings the nose. Similar change exists in the taste. Although the increased acidity lowers the fetidness in taste, it causes to spike. Also, despite the reduced bitterness of dark chocolate, the wine still feels stuffy.

 

In sum, the wine has medium body & tannin, acidity(medium to high), and dryness, which, despite of its bitterness, sourness, and stuffiness, has a soft texture. Because the taste is straightforward and flat, it is matchable to Korean cuisine, chicken, and pizza and it will make a decent daily wine with its budget price. However, the offensive odor holds me back from recommending this wine.

 

-Maker's Note(Official Website)

 

Jorio is Umani Ronchi’s selected Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC. It was created in the mid-nineties to express the great potential of this varietal, in collaboration with fanatically dedicated Abruzzese winegrowers with vineyards in particularly favourable areas for its growth. The name of the wine is intended as a tribute to the great twentieth-century Abruzzese poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, who made his wild, provincial native soil into a “barbaric” novelty, exciting and transgressive, with which he stirred and won the public’s favour. Here is D’Annunzio’s dedication to his pastoral tragedy The daughter of Jorio: “To the land of Abruzzi, to my mother, to my sisters, to my brother in exile, to my buried father, to all my dead, to all my people between the mountains and the sea, this song of ancient blood I consecrate.”

 

 

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