The 2012 Monteverro offers a very dark and brooding profile, the darkest of all the wines I tasted in a vertical of the first 2008 vintage through the 2021 release, with consultant winemaker Jean Hoefliger in California in August 2024. It leads with blackberry, charcuterie, black liquorice, black cherry, smoky clove, dried herbs, and floral notes. Full-bodied with arresting robust tannins that are muscular in stature and build through the lengthy finish of crushed stones, more black fruit, and more peach pit, even grapefruit zest and dried orange peel and apple skin notes. There’s plenty of nuance and plenty of life left in this brooding wine.
