Rating: 91 Points (Robert Parker)

“A pure expression of the lively Raboso grape, the 2009 Raboso del Piave is thickly extracted wine with dark flavors of black or purple fruit, bitter chocolate and chewing tobacco. There’s also something wild or rustic. Raboso is a native northern Italian grape that gets its name from the dialect term rabioso (“angry”) because of the tight tannic astringency that is characteristic of the variety. That structure will help the wine’s future evolution…..”