Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
Argiano's annata Brunello from the Renaissance Sant'Angelo in Colle estate. The 2018 vintage was named Wine Spectator's Wine of the Year 2023.
Cuvées
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Cult Vin Santo from raisined Sangiovese (Prugnolo Gentile), 10+ years in caratelli; one of Italy's most fabled sweet wines.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Banfi's flagship Brunello Riserva from the Poggio all'Oro vineyard, released only in top vintages.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
The founding Brunello, traditionally styled in Slavonian botti from the Greppo estate's Sangiovese Grosso vines.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Released only in exceptional vintages, the Riserva is one of the world's most fabled wines for cellar capacity.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Capezzana's flagship Vin Santo from raisined Trebbiano and San Colombano, 8 to 10 years in caratelli.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Single-vineyard Brunello from Casanova di Neri's Cerretalto cru, one of Montalcino's most concentrated cuvees.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Castello di Ama's cult 100 percent Merlot Toscana IGT from a tiny Gaiole parcel, plush and graphite-mineral.
Galatrona
4.9
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Bold
Italy's reference 100 percent Merlot away from Bolgheri. Black cherry, blackberry and violet over a graphite-iron mineral spine, with polished oak and firm tannin in support.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Traditional Vin Santo del Chianti Classico from Le Fonti, raisined grapes aged 10 years in caratelli.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Cult 100 percent Merlot Toscana IGT from Le Macchiole, often compared to its Masseto neighbour.
Masseto
5.0
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
100 percent Merlot from a 7-hectare blue-clay parcel inside the Ornellaia estate. Widely considered Italy's most prestigious Merlot and a global benchmark for the variety outside Bordeaux.
Ornellaia
4.9
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
Lodovico Antinori's Bolgheri Bordeaux-blend, founded 1981. Bolgheri Superiore DOC under Frescobaldi ownership; Wine Spectator Wine of the Year 2001 for the 1998 vintage.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
The Riserva amplifies the house signature: rose-petal and dried-cherry depth, iron-and-leather backbone, a very long balsamic finish. Released only in exceptional vintages.
Sassicaia
5.0
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
The founding Super Tuscan: a Bordeaux blend planted at Bolgheri in 1944 by Mario Incisa della Rocchetta. Granted its own single-estate DOC in 1994.
Siepi
4.8
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
A 50/50 Sangiovese-Merlot Super Tuscan from the historic Siepi vineyard at 850 feet. Black plum, sandalwood and tobacco over a firm cedar-and-cherry core.
Solaia
4.9
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant
Cabernet-led sibling of Tignanello, denser and more international in profile, with cassis and graphite intensity over a long Tuscan acid spine.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Soldera's flagship pure Sangiovese, now under Toscana IGT after withdrawing from Brunello DOCG. Ethereal, perfumed, profound.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Tua Rita's flagship 100 percent Merlot Toscana IGT from Suvereto on the Val di Cornia, awarded 100 points by Wine Advocate for the 2000 vintage.