The 2020 Chianti Classico Riserva is terrific. Macerated dark cherry, spice, leather, tobacco, dried owners and underbrush are some of the many notes that grace this super-expressive Riserva. The 2020 is a touch somber, but that only adds to its consid...
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The 2021 Bianco Latimis is exotic and tropical in the glass, with spiced peach and nectarine offset by minty herbs. There's a lovely energy within, sapid and perfumed yet full of life, as saline minerals mingle with ripe pit fruits. A salty flourish if...
An exquisite wine, Le Cinciole's 2019 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Aluigi Campo ai Peri is immediately seductive. More than anything else, I admire the purity and delineation here. Sweet pipe tobacco, cedar, mint, rose petal and dried herbs are finely ...
La Spinona's 2016 Barolo Bergera is an intense, driving wine. It offers up scents of crushed red berries, orange peel and spice, all in a mid-weight, transparent style that is hugely appealing. Time in the glass brings out floral accents as the wine st...
The 2015 Barolo Sori' Gepin needs quite a bit of air to open, but it is so expressive as that starts to happen. Dried flowers, cedar, tobacco and autumn leaves are laced together in a mid-weight, savory Barolo loaded with character. The 2015 remains ne...
This is a dense, serious red with dried-strawberry, orange-peel and walnut character on the nose and palate. Full body and firm, chewy tannins that are polished and refined at the same time. This needs time to soften, but I like the sleek, linear path in ...