Ruggero di Bardo Susumaniello 2021: Trader Joe’s Strikes Again

Year after year, this Susumaniello is one of the most popular and best selling wines at Trader Joe’s. Amazing value on this little known grape from Italy’s southernmost regions. What a whopper!

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[Music] hello and welcome to up your wine game today is the first of my Italian Tuesdays lineup right so every Tuesday I’m going to bring you a short video on an Italian wine I’m going to bring in an expert from Italy who’s going to taste the same wine give his feedback on of my old colleague Toto Katon and and so going forward Italian Wine’s been my jam for like 30 35 years now so I want to include something every week on an Italian wine there’s no country in the world that produces the variety uh and the quality that Italian that Italy does in in my humble opinion and over the next you know years there’s a wine there’s an Italian wine for every occasion so I just want to show and highlight um the just the flexibility and the variety that comes out of Italy right so today we’re going to be tasting one of my traditional longtime favorites it’s the suu manello from rero deardo this is available at Trader Joe’s the 2021 vintage uh pretty unique bottle so very easy to kind of pick off the shelf at Trader Joe’s but for 10 bucks this has traditionally been a gang Buster bottle of wine so I’m going to taste it here um and then we’ll get Toto’s comments on it and we’ll go from here but this traditionally has been fantastic so let’s let’s let’s dig in so here just super dark plumy red black cherry nose on this it’s simple there’s not a whole lot of Oak if there’s any Oak at all on this it’s probably a used oak or are large so there’s no Oak influence is what I’m trying to say this is very fruit driven black fruit driven wine heavy Plum heavy black cherry on the nose here not a whole lot of secondary Aromas going on here for 10 bucks not really expecting that but it’s very clean very fruity uh without smelling Jammy if you will so let’s see what we got going on on the on the in the mouth mhm oh absolutely this is like a black cherry Black Plum hint of baking spice mash up the beauty of this thing is it’s got a ton of fruit but it’s not a fruit bomb it’s not flabby there are sweet delicate persistent tannins that run from start to finish there’s enough acidity here to make this great at the table this is a hell of a wine for 10 bucks regardless of whether it’s from Italy or wherever the hell it’s from for 10 bucks hard to beat this can’t wait to get Toto’s comments on this Toto you’re tasting this wine right now let me know what you think here’s the Toto welcome back I hope you’ve enjoyed Toto’s comments on these wies I think this is a hell of a wine for $10 um it’s going to be hard to beat this if you’re not hip to Italian wine or if you usually just drink California or France or Spain or Chile or wherever if if you’ve never tried an Italian wine make this the first one you tried I think there’s enough fruit balance uh immediate um appeal to this wine that you’ll fall in love with Italian wine just tasting this the tannin are mellow uh there’s a ton of fruit it’s balanced uh again you know suu manelo from rero De ble uh this is the 2021 vintage unique bottle so very easy to find at Trader Joe’s for for $10 you got to try it again uh this is the first of the series Italian Tuesdays look forward every Tuesday for a new Italian wine uh because again I think if you’re not hip to the Italian wine game uh it offers a variety and quality price ratio uh that’s unmatched anywhere in the world so anyway until next time be well drink [Music] well