Certainly the richest local red grape when allowed to fully ripen and not over-cropped, this is certainly not going to happen with the Alessandros, low yields are the order of the day, the week and the year. Planted in 2000 these vines are now reaching proper maturity and we are getting some wonderful stuff now. Blackberry and ripe black cherry. Absolutely. As we would expect. But there is a gamey, rich even farm-yardy richness to the nose and the depth of flavour. An intense ruby colour, very beguiling and really rather intoxicating. 

The Alessandros from Camporeale. Small town in the hills above Palermo. Longstanding fields left to go to seed over the years till the brothers decided to make like a vigneron and get growing. They started in and around 2000 with Syrah plantings and have progressed to Nero d’Avola, Cataratto and Sauvignon Blanc, which we have yet to bring over. Sicily has the climate to produce fantastic fruit with no real worry over the weather. They are lucky too that regulations do not allow irrigation so we have great vines struggling hard against the heat, they just concentrate all that flavour into those lovely little berries. The Alessandros are a top team and the products they gently release onto the market are accepted within months as outstanding. They started with Kaid Syrah, and now even have an incredibly perfumed and unctuous sweet Syrah to finish off the range.