Valter Mattoni - Arshura

There’s no point in describing a wine, it is technically unnatural, words and taste don’t match, literally from a neurological point of you. And all those fancy descriptions, those hints of Mexican lime and Provencal lavender etc…. I mean all those professional tasting notes that make you feel so stupid in both cases: when I say them, I think what am I even saying??

And even if I wanted to try to describe Valter Mattoni wines in an official way, he won’t let me. He would surely say: wine is to get rid of the Arshura (that means something like dryness or burning thirst). Because, as he says, we have Arshura for everything: things, food, love, sex and surely wine.
But I have to say (forgive me Valter) that his wines are incredible. They are a synthesis of rural and intense flavors and they have a great balance between simplicity and complexity. Wines for intellectuals that want to get rid of the burden of sophisticated matters and want just to simply drink it, and wines for easy people that what to shock their simple existence.
In Arshura, feel the strong tannins and the ripe fruit. That sense of creamy dryness that fills all your palate and calls some rich (even greasy) food.

A bold and robust dry red wine from Montepulciano grapes, firm tannins, aged in oak.