Benessere Vineyards Red Wines
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Black cherry, blackberry, and blackcurrant aromas are complemented by hints of mocha and dark chocolate. On the palate, the wine is silky in texture, but it has a delightfully surprising tannic grip. Notes of espresso and dark chocolate-covered cherries stand out against a background of lush fruit flavors. The lingering, complex finish promise a great future for this wine.
Beautiful notes of dark fruit, fine dark chocolate, and a hint of spice lead to a harmonious palate that gives and gives. Still very young, this wine will evolve in the mouth as it will evolve in your cellar over the next decade. Rich, complex, and rewarding.
Rich scarlet in color, this wine offers disparate yet beauitfully intergrated aromas that range from red rasberry, star anise, and cinnamon to toasted almonds, gooseberry, milk chocolate, and baking spice. The medium/heavy body carries these flavors on the palate augmented with more layers of flavor from fine French oak barrels. These notes of allspice, sandalwood, and vanilla are almost hypnotic over the smooth, long finish.
This dark wine is intensely aromatic, layered, and complex. Hints of clove, mace and espresso are supported by dark fruit aromas including blackberry and black cherry.
This richly powerful wine offers a heady blend of aromas including baking spices, cedar, cardamom and clove. Blackberry, pomegranate, and blackcurrant notes come through on the nose and palate. The wine is juicy and ebullient, with the spice notes dominant. The finish is long, complex, and ever-evolving, promising a long life ahead for this wine.
Enjoy with osso bucco, rabbit with spring vegetables and polenta, a braised lamb shank, or a pomegranate-glazed pork chop.
Bright blueberry and black raspberry aromas, with hints of vanilla and clove. Vivacious and complex with a delightfully charming finish. Pair with a salad of watermelon, feta and mint, an antipasto plate, or a pizza topped with cremini mushrooms.
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Signature Sangiovese notes of Morello cherry and saddle leather, along with hints of blackberry and cocoa powder. On the palate the wine is sumptuously textured and captivating, commanding attention, which is rewarded with discoveries of espresso, molten chocolate, and clove.
This intensely colored wine appears seems to be brooding in the glass, holding its secrets close. The aromas imparted by the new French oak (50%) barrels are marked but well integrated, lending notes of dark roast coffee and milk chocolate. The wine offers classic flavors of red- and blackcurrant, blackberry, raspberry, sage, black cherry, and toasted almond, along with hints of vanilla, cedar, and cocoa. On the palate the wine is satiny and silky. The lingering finish reveals something new with each taste.
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This is a beautiful wine from the aromatic start to the seemingly endless finish. It beguiles with aromas of blue and black fruit and hints of violets and roses. On the palate it is sumptuously textured. The floral and fruit characters are joined by hints of espresso and dark chocolate, as well as savory notes of cedar and a hint of black olive.
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Layered, complex aromas of blackberry, raspberry, and chocolate-covered strawberries. Medium-weight on the palate, with a medley of fruit flavors that will surely bring a smile to your face. Pair with chicken saltimbocca, eggplant parmigiana, or focaccia with rosemary and olives.
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We are excited to introduce you to our new releases including the debut of the 2019 Tenaci, our second in the series of five wines created to replace the 2020 vintage lost to the wildfires. Tenaci is the Italian word for tenacity, perseverance, and resilience.
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With its beautiful carmine red shade, our Sagrantino is as graceful as it is intense. This wine is deep and savory. Exotic aromas of sandalwood, teak, and star anise support notes of black raspberry and Santa Rosa plum.
Bold, rich, compelling notes of blackberry, vanilla, clove, and allspice. Fine-grained tannins promise development of further complexity in the cellar, but this wine would be enjoyable now with a bistecca fiorentina or braised lamb shanks.
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As the only Aglianico produced in the Napa Valley, this wine has a captivating nose that offers notes of blueberry, huckleberry, rhubarb, baked fruit and exotic spices such as nutmeg and mace. It is tightly knit with notes of dark chocolate and brambly dark red fruit. The mouthcoating tannins lead to a long, sanguine finish.
A deep, vibrant crimson, this wine is dark and brooding, with a captivating nose offering notes of blackberry, black cherry and pomegranate, with hints of coffee and exotic spices.
Aromas of cherry, strawberry, blackberry, lavender, mocha and chocolate dance from the glass while supple tannins mingle with flavors of cocoa, cherry and blueberry on the palate. Mouthcoating, but not grippy, this wine can be enjoyed now or cellared over the next 7-10 years for added complexity.
