Mottura Stilio Primitivo di Manduria

A remarkable bottle of wine. For starters, it weighs a ton. It's so heavy, you barely need to hold the bottle as you turn the corkscrew. At first whiff, you know this is not a 'vin de contemplation', but a knock on the door from a rowdy mate who wants to talk sport. It's full on, super-ripe, with notes of prune, damson, dark spice and affogato. The surprise is that, unlike your rowdy mate, who's still spouting on about how Everton are going to win the league, this evolves in the glass, draws you in, and spits you out, wiser and humbler, with red-stained lips.