Orgo, Qvevri Saperavi, Kakheti, Georgia, 2015

Deep black-red in colour, this has quiet, classy aromas of mulberries, blackberries and the living forest floor. Deep and concentrated on the palate, the acids are beautifully bonded to that rooty black fruit, and the tannins are of middling weight and fine texture. It’s on the finish that you see the the distinctive, exotic Saperavi spice, like a distant Caucasian echo of a fine Northern Rhône red.