Bright red cherries, lavendar, thyme, spice box.  Ripe cherry palate, some strawberry; juicy and easy drinking.  Ercole, "Hercules", is made by a generations-old cooperative of local growers in the Monferrato area of Piedmont.  This easy-going Liter sized bottle is meant for sharing juicy fruit with friends with nearly any food.  100% Barbera.  Fermented in concrete.