Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs Red Wine 2021 750ml Scotch Vines as old as 125

Vines as old as 125 years are planted in clay-rich soil

Rich dark gold mahogany colour

It captures the full-bodied style of this famous village while maintaining an elegant texture and a fine structure

while the bright

tar and eucalyptus notes wrapped in warm vanilla tones from the oak

Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs Red Wine 2021 750ml Scotch Vines as old as 125The old adage is that inexperienced sailors were defeated by enemy ships because their cannonballs missed the targets. The experienced ones would shoot a bullet first to determine the trajectory prior to the eventual cannonball being fired. The calculations provided a better result with a higher percentage of their target being destroyed. Rather than a mass planting of a new grape variety, Ashley Ratcliffs approach was to plan small plots, watch, wait