2015 Kurni Oasi degli Angeli Review And Tasting Notes
We tasted the 2015 Kurni Oasi degli Angeli, and it was a great adventure. It is a clear and powerful wine that goes its way and does not care for cosmetics and crystallized forms. No, he flows warm and enveloping, he moves with elegance and sumptuousness, but instead of being only vertical as a sommelier would say, he is simply all-encompassing. Because it moves in a thousand directions, changes, hits, and then caresses you, it does everything naturally.
Ah, the naturalness of wine, this myth that many are chasing but few manage to trap in a bottle. And instead, Kurni 2015 is a wine with a unique territorial imprint. It knows how to photograph these hills, the sea breeze, and the plant’s density and transfuse them into liquid pleasure. So much so that the terroir, in this case, is a fact.
But never have we talked so rightly about terroir, that is, land, climate, and the hand of the human being, which he interprets and knows how to direct with his sensitivity. Because to classify Kurni solely as a photographic wine would be an understatement. In reality, this Montepulciano aspires to greatness, evolution over the years, and glory and is made to challenge the decades with this tannic power.
It is a wine that, if drunk now, is sumptuous, but certainly still a little too exuberant, but it is a virtue, youth that paws, so do not rush and let it rest for at least 5 years in the cellar. But also 20 if you are so cold.
The bouquet
Explosive nose, mature, but never cooked with incredible fruity notes that go from smoothie to ice cream to jam. The spices are there, and they are delicate. Herbs and earthy traces like any purebred Montepulciano offers. Final with aromas of salt and eucalyptus. Variety, amazing aromatic credibility, and a lot of cleansing of the line.
The taste
Wide mouth, deep, with pulp that takes ferocious bites, and you don’t want to leave it anymore. It is striking for its density, fleshiness, and pulpiness, beautifully fused into a statuesque body, sculpted in thundering but never grumpy tannins. Sidereal drinkability, unique pleasantness, but if it is true that it is austere, do not expect a diaphanous or subtle wine. The rebellious sumptuousness of Montepulciano leaves no room for small details.
Simply one of the best red wines in Italy.
Does Kurni have residual sugar? Why is it sweet?
One of the criticisms of Kurni is that it is a sweet wine, so fruity that it almost seems to have residual sugar, but this is a colossal lie. The speech is elementary: the Montepulciano grape is one of the richest in anthocyanins and anthocyanidins, molecules responsible for the fruity-sweet sensations of this wine.
If you consider that the yields are absurdly low, the dense saplings and the vines at least ninety years old, this explains why Kurni in the first years of life offers “sweet sensations.” But it is not residual sugar: Kurni wine has no residual sugar but many anthocyanins and anthocyanidins. It is enough to taste vintages of at least 6, even better than 10 years to realize it. The exuberance of cherry and black cherry diminishes with the decay of tannins.
Food Pairings
Roast beef, tacos, black truffle risotto, passatelli with Parmigiano fondue and truffle, bucatini all’amatriciana, roast beef, hamburger.