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Grattamacco 2024 Bolgheri Rosso
Price range: $34.99 through $336.00Tuscany Italy
The Grattamacco 2024 Bolgheri Rosso is an organic blend of 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, 10% Sangiovese and 5% Petit Verdot, fermented in stainless steel and matured for a brief six months in neutral barrique. The wine shows bright fruit at the forefront with notes of candied cherry and grenadine, followed by hints of spice and blue flower on the back end. Crafted to emphasize immediacy and primary fruit, this youthful Bolgheri Rosso stays fresh, direct and nicely focused throughout.
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Guado al Tasso 2019 Bolgheri Superiore
$139.99Tuscany Italy
James Suckling 98 Rating
This has a wild and perfumed nose of dried thyme, sage, blackberries, cocoa, graphite and white and green peppercorns. Then dried flowers. Full-bodied with firm, tight and precise tannins. Vibrant. There’s so much character and structure. A new benchmark for this winery. More cabernet franc than in the past. Best yet? 65% cabernet sauvignon, 25% cabernet franc and 10% merlot. Try from 2025. R39-3 -
Guado al Tasso 2020 Bolgheri Superiore
$149.99Tuscany Italy
Wine Advocate 96 Rating
The Marchesi Antinori 2020 Bolgheri Superiore Guado al Tasso sees Cabernet Franc at over 30% of the blend in this vintage, with the rest going to Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% to 20% to Merlot. Matarocchio was not produced this year, and this wine benefits from the extra Cabernet Franc as a result. The 2019 and 2021 vintages of Guado al Tasso are quite concentrated and rich, whereas 2020 is leaner in texture, along the lines of the edition we saw made in 2010. There was rain in September. Managing Director Renzo Cotarella says he would not describe 2020 as a hot vintage because the rain did pose challenges at the end of the growing season. In Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast, budbreak is earlier than in other appellations, and the growing season is longer as a result. This is a benefit to the international varieties used here. The wine shows nice richness and intensity. The Cabernet Franc definitely comes through and adds the characteristic vertical lift and linearity that the grape is known for. You get black fruit, spice, white pepper and no signs of bitter stems or bramble. Sweet, almost milky tannins are interlocked with fresh acidity to give this wine good cellaring potential. The new oak was dialed back a bit in this vintage. SP48-1 -
Guado al Tasso 2024 il Bruciato Bolgheri Rosso
Price range: $29.99 through $156.00Tuscany Italy
The 2024 Il Bruciato shows an intense ruby red color. The nose presents the notes of red and black berry fruit which are characteristic of this vintage and capable of giving the wine an excellent concentration. Sweet spices and a hint of liquorice complete the bouquet. The palate is well structured, persistent, and highly pleasurable in its fruity finish and aftertaste.
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Gurrieri 2024 Terre Siciliane Frappato
Price range: $29.99 through $150.00Sicily Italy
Frappato is a surprising grape. Sicilian wine is not supposed to be bright, crunchy, and zesty like this one. It is certainly not supposed to clock in at a cool 12.5% alcohol; not even Etna Rosso, grown at thousands of feet above sea level, does that. Yet here Frappato is, a juicy and delicious counterpoint to Nero d’Avola, and an increasingly popular alternative for grape growers and wine drinkers alike. The Gurrieri family grows their Frappato on the southern coast, dedicated to organic practices. This latest vintage offers a fresh blast of raspberry, strawberry, and smoked orange peel on the nose. The palate is crunchy and crisp, and tastes of the raspberries that fall off the bush when you try to pick them and a dusting of black pepper. As you work your way through the glass, light chalky tannins build up on the finish, something to chew on while you eat fresh pasta, fried calamari, or margarita pizza.
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I Greppi 2021 Greppicaia Bolgheri Superiore
Price range: $69.99 through $360.00Tuscany Italy
James Suckling 94 Rating
Notes of dark cherries, plum skin, dark chocolate, black olives, dried orange peel and moist earth. Polished and refined on the palate, with a medium to full body. It’s vibrant and energetic, with some crunchiness and spiciness to its tannins. Lingering and nervy. Better after two to three years.
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I Greppi 2022 Greppicaia Bolgheri Superiore
$69.99Tuscany Italy
Jeb Dunnuck 96 Rating
A highly luxurious style, the 2022 Greppicaia pours a dark purple/red color and is very pronounced and saturated with layered oak spice, toasted vanilla, cedar, boysenberry, plum, cigar box, and polished leather. While the oak is quite forward, this is a wine of high quality, with a bright spine of ripe acidity to balance it out and a full-bodied, broad-shouldered and well-defined, ripe texture that doesn’t feel weighted. It has a very long, salty finish with bright redcurrant fruit lasting long on the palate. I can’t help but be impressed here, although it’s going to need several years in a cellar and is built for the long haul. R6-2 Most stores $79.99 -
I Greppi 2023 Greppicante Bolgheri Rosso
Price range: $24.99 through $126.00Tuscany Italy
International Wine Cellar 94 Rating
Precise and essential in its sensory profile, it reveals notes of rosemary, juniper berries, sandalwood, incense, elderflower, and wild violet. Medium-bodied, with soft tannins and a composed, essential finish. A blend of 60% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, 13% Petit Verdot, and 14% Cabernet Sauvignon.
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I Vignaioli di Santo Stefano Moscato d’Asti
Price range: $19.99 through $102.00Piedmont Italy
This classic Moscato d’Asti makes for an excellence aperitif or dessert wine. Lightly sparkling, it is a pretty pale yellow in color, intensely fruity, aromatic and lingering. The sweetness is in balance with the low alcohol (5%) and acidity that gives this wine a pleasant freshness. It is vinified exclusively in steel tanks. While this makes for an exquisite cocktail, it also pairs really well with roasted hazelnuts or fruit tarts.
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