2020 Montiano
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A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Cabernet Franc, the Famiglia Cotarella 2020 Marciliano Cotarella is an intense and textured wine that is both soft and round. It shows mineral sensations of white stone and chalk at the very beginning, maybe from the Cabernet Franc, and these cede to generous dark fruit and spice. The vines are on clay soils with silt, sand and fossils. These results are focused and precise.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2020 Merlot Montiano is youthfully dark and brooding, smoldering up from the glass with an exotic blend of crushed black raspberries, blueberries, blood orange and incense. This is elegant and refined. Brilliant acidity energizes a core of vibrantly ripe red and blue fruits. A chalky air of violet pastille coats the palate. It's impossibly long and staining through the finale, with sweet tannins that frame the experience perfectly without slowing its momentum. This sun-kissed vintage of Montiano Merlot aims to please yet never falls out of balance.