Toscana
2019 Capezzana - Carmignano DOCG Villa de Capezzana
The 2019 Carmignano Villa di Capezzana is youthfully poised with dusty rose, dried black cherries and a burnt orange zest forming its bouquet. This washes across the palate with silky textures and ripe red fruits, gaining tension through a mix of salin...
2016 Capezzana - Carmignano DOCG Riserva Trefiano
Made with organic fruit, the 2016 Carmignano Villa di Capezzana is an 80/20 blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is open and accessible, showing a graceful and pure quality of fruit with dark cherry, blackberry, spice, tar and tobacco. The...
2022 Capezzana, Villa de - Barco Reale di Carmignano DOC (750ml)
2016 Capezzana Vin Santo DOC Carmignano (375ml)
Intense aromas and flavors of brown butter, caramel, roasted walnut and dried apricot are the hallmarks of this dessert-style white. A balanced version, with a seamless finish marked by lively acidity, this is elegant overall. Trebbiano and San Colombano....
2019 Capraia - Chianti Classico Riserva
The 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva is a potent, brooding wine. Black cherry, chocolate, new leather, torrefaction, tobacco, incense and scorched earth add to an impression of somber intensity. This powerhouse Riserva could use another year or two in bot...
2018 Carpineto - Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Riserva
The Carpineto 2018 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva is dark and thick with lots of black and purple fruit packed tight within. Despite the opulance of the mouthfeel, the wine never feels heavy. Indeed, that fresh acidity adds pretty lift to the mouthf...
2013 Casaloste - Toscana Rosso IGT Inversus
The 2013 Inversus is Casaloste's Merlot/Sangiovese blend. Made in a decidedly international in style, the 2013 has terrific richness, depth and pliancy, featuring dark jammy fruit, mocha, chocolate, licorice, lavender and spice. Not a subtle wine, but ...
2018 Casanova di Neri - Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova
Elegant and perfumed nose of dried roses, violets, lemon zest, slate, cherries, aniseed and truffles. Very fine, tight and precise tannins. Medium to full body. I like the floral and saline undertones. So precise and fresh with a tight finish. Crushed sto...
2019 Casanova di Neri - Brunello di Montalcino (750ml)
Showing dried blackberry, balsam herb, vapor rub and a hint of charred chili spice, this wine offers an aromatic profile that is very much in line with a vintage that saw cool spring temperatures and a hot summer. The Casanova di Neri 2018 Brunello di Mon...
2017 Castellare - Toscana Rosso IGT I Sodi di San Niccolo Super Tuscan
The 2017 I Sodi di San Niccolo is supple, radiant and inviting, almost uncharacteristically so for a young vintage of this typically potent, brooding wine. That makes the 2017 an ideal vintage for readers who want to explore I Sodi, one of the most under ...