There’s lots of red fruit and a hint of tobacco on the nose. There’s a hint of sweetness on the taste with flavours of old leather, dark chocolate with black plum.

This is a big wine, medium to high tannins and with decent acidity that puts in the better half of Amarone out there. At £30 a bottle its the price you pay for decent Amarone, just drink it over several nights, then the price doesn’t seem so high.

Masi Costasera Amarone 2013, Italy