Tuscany

A sleek and supple style, aromatics are subtly spicy, with blueberry, blackberry fruit core. There are notes of earth, tobacco and something a little savoury swirl around on the lithe and fulsome palate. Decent grip of ripe tannins give structure and length, a really lovely medium weight S...(read more)

Graziana Grassini is the oenologist for Sassicaia but also here at Fattoria di Magliano and has been making the wine since their first harvest back in 2001. Heba is a beautiful 'Morellino di Scansano' the local name for the Sangiovese grape. It is loaded with bright red berries and gently...(read more)

Fresh red fruits, cherry, raspberry, crisp, with grip and tension, dark fleshy fruit core, quite serious.

Always a charmer the 2019 is distinctly lovely. Quite plush plum and blackberry fruit nose with a gentle touch of hedgerow and wood spice. Sleek delivery, with barely-there, ripe tannins, a decadent ripeness and good length. This has a gracious ease and is delightful.

Concentrated forest-fruit nose with a hint of fruit cake. Just a touch medicinal at first and then supple fruit of great depth. The gritty, firm tannins on the finish are a little demanding right now.

We really are in a sweet spot with Tuscan releases at the moment and this is the first of two consecutive vintages of simply cracking wines. The 2015 is slightly more muscular and powerful, plenty of rich berry and damson fruit, ripe mouthfilling tannins, earthy, savoury and with a nice un...(read more)

A very refined and delicious Chianti - bright cherry and raspberry fruit which had depth and dark fruit and spicy polished wood notes too. Good acidity makes this instantly juicy and sappy and supple-textured. Very refined and long.

(Merlot 40%, Cabernet Franc 20%, Cabernet Sauvignon 20%, Syrah 20%). Fermentation and maceration for about 15 days in steel tanks. Then aged for 10 months, 80% in oak barriques (2nd, 3rd and 4th use) and the other 20% in concrete.

Grown in very hard-to-manage narrow terraces on a precipitous slope, with each vine on a pole, so everything has to be done by hand. Undoubtedly hideously hard work but the result is one of the most complete and refined wines in Chianti, with a fullness and supple richness combined with a...(read more)

'Proper 'super-Tuscan' style for a less than stratospheric super-Tuscan price. This gorgeous Bordeaux blend is aged for 18 months in new Alliers oak. Still a vibrant youthful colour; a fruity spicy nose with notes of cassis, blackberries and tobacco. The palate shows concentration, full-bo...(read more)