Fattoria Le Terrazze Rosso Conero Riserva Sassi Neri 2020 750ml

Our Notes

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - Dinner with a beautiful Italian. The wine is made of 100% Montepulciano and aged in oak casks.  Color is ruby red with purple edges.  The wine smells of tobacco and black fruits with herbs dominating the nose.  Sipping the wine it charges into the mouth with lively acidity, dark fruits, herbs, and forest floor, all well balanced.  Finishing with a palate cleansing refreshing fruit aftertaste.  This is a food wine for sure, and it accompanied our pork chops perfectly, along with Ali Siagle, NYTimes recipe of lemon potatoes and, Dorothy’s roasted eggplant and tomatoes.  This is a wine very much worth your time.  

-Bernie, Follow the Drinker®

Expert Review

For your further guidance Eric Guido writes about the 2019:  A beguiling blend of crushed black cherries, sage, tobacco, mocha and sweet smoke wafts up from the 2019 Conero Riserva Sassi Neri. This is polished and elegant with velvety textures and ripe red berry fruits that flow across a cooling stream of lively acidity. Nothing is out of place as this finishes long and classically structured, leaving a pleasantly bitter licorice tinge and violet inner florals that resonate on and on. The 2019 continues to be one of the most balanced and complex renditions of Sassi Neri. What an utterly gorgeous wine.  - Vinous 94