Grape Variety :
Sangiovese
Format : 750 mL
Degree of Alcohol : 14.5%
Bottles/Crate : 12
Caract. : Dry red wine
Inventory :
Cellier Collection
Format : 750 mL
Degree of Alcohol : 14.5%
Bottles/Crate : 12
Tasting :
"A perfumed version, this reveals cherry, strawberry, spice and leather flavors, with briar and tobacco accents. Firm and a bit gruff on the finish, but this hangs together in the end. " BS -Wine Advocate - R. Parker
Wine Pairing :
Marinated Beef braised. Beef bourguignon. Deer skewer with pepper and cherry tomato. Rack of lamb à la Provençale.
Winemaking :
- Variety : Sangiovese 100%
- Age of vines : 10-25 years
- Yield of vines : 5000 kg/ha
- Irrigation : None
- Harvest : Manual
- Fermentation: Stainless steel during 25 days
- Maturation : 3 years in old Slovenian oak barrels. Fining in the bottle for 6 months. With the lees. Malolactic fermentation.
- Type of yeast : Indigenous
- Fining : Lightly filtered
- Cellar : 15-20 years
- Decanting : 3+ hours
See the Press Review
Vintage 2019
- Wine Spectator : 93 points
Vintage 2018
- Falstaff 2023 : 94 pts.
- Wine Advocate -R. Parker : 94 points
- Wine Spectator: 92 points
- Vinous (Antonio Galloni) 2021: 94 points
- Decanter : 95 points
- Jancis Robinson : 17+/20
Vintage 2017
- James Suckling : 94 pts.
- Wine Spectator : 94 pts.
Vintage 2016
- Wine Spectator : TOP 100 2021 : 98 pts / 5th
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker : 95 pts.
- James Suckling : 94 pts.
- Vinous (Antonio Galloni) 95 pts.
- Wine Spectator 2021 : 96 pts.
Vintage 2015
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 95 pts.
- Wine Spectator: 94 pts.
- James Suckling 2020 : 97 pts.
Vintage 2014
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 93 pts.
- James Suckling 06/2019: 93 pts.
- Wine Spectator: 90 pts.
Vintage 2013
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 96 pts.
- Wine Spectator : 97 pts.
Vintage 2012
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 94 pts.
Vintage 2011
- Wine Spectator: 90 pts.
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 93 pts.
- James Suckling: 93v
Vintage 10
- Wine Spectator: 93 pts.
- Wine Advocate- R. Parker: 98 pts.