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By the early 1980’s his intensely concentrated, yet highly aromatic, Brunellos were already turning heads; yet, production of just a few hundred bottles kept the lid on his reputation until the stakes were raised with his 1990’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDue to the small production of all of these wines, combined with their devoted following, Soldera Brunello’s are among the most sought-after, and difficult-to-find, wines of Italy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe left the Brunello DOCG and labels his wine 100% Sangiovese. 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These rich soils, combined with the cooling influence of the nearby Apennines, create ideal growing conditions for Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. The estate’s organic farming practices and vines aged 20 to 40 years contribute to the distinct character of this Tuscan gem, while the winery’s roots trace back to 804, making it one of the oldest in Italy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVilla di Capezzana Carmignano is a blend of 80% Sangiovese and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, showcasing the elegance and complexity that define this historic wine region. This vintage opens with aromas of ripe cherries, blackberries, and plums, layered with earthy notes of leather, tobacco, and Mediterranean herbs. The palate is balanced with a vibrant acidity and structured tannins, thanks to the Sangiovese, while the Cabernet Sauvignon adds richness and depth. After a 12-month aging process in a mix of French oak tonneaux and large Slavonian barrels, followed by another year of bottle aging, the wine reveals subtle hints of spice, vanilla, and cocoa, with a long, savory finish. At 14% alcohol, this wine strikes a perfect balance between power and finesse, making it a quintessential expression of Carmignano.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Contini Bonacossi family, custodians of the Tenuta di Capezzana estate for generations, have upheld the rich winemaking tradition of Carmignano. Winemaker Benedetta Contini Bonacossi combines centuries-old practices with modern techniques, creating wines that are both steeped in history and forward-thinking. The family’s commitment to organic farming and minimal intervention in the cellar allows the unique terroir of Carmignano to shine in every bottle. 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The estate spans 298 hectares, with 54 hectares dedicated to vineyards nestled among olive groves and forests. The vineyards are predominantly south-facing, benefiting from optimal sunlight, and are planted on alluvial soils rich in pebbles and sand, contributing to the wine's distinctive minerality and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e100% Sangiovese. Fermentation occurs in stainless steel tanks, preserving the purity of the fruit, followed by aging in large Slavonian oak casks known as 'botti.' The wine is then held back in bottle to develop added complexity and refinement before release. It exhibits classic aromas and flavors of dried red fruits and flowers, minerals, and a dusty, earthy core that is uniquely Tuscan. 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The Rosso specifically comes from the Testucchiaia vineyard, with vines between 10 and 25 years old at 320 meters, on clay soil threaded with stone. The sector benefits from steady wind off the coast to the west, which keeps disease pressure down and lets Caprili farm with minimal intervention, while also tempering the heat in warmer vintages. It is Sangiovese Grosso country through and through, the same biotype locally called Brunello that built Montalcino's reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100% Sangiovese Grosso, fermented with native yeast at a controlled 26-28°C with about 10 days of maceration in steel, then aged 9 to 12 months in wood, split between 40% barrique and tonneaux and 60% large 19-hectoliter Slavonian oak casks. The 2023 growing season opened normally before a wet summer slowed ripening and pushed the harvest into a longer window, September 15 through October 2, more typical of the late 1990s than a modern Montalcino vintage. The result is an intense ruby red with purple hints, showing mature red fruit, dried cherry, and a savory, leathery edge, full-bodied with real persistence on the finish. It is built to drink young but should hold for years given Rosso's typical eight-year aging window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bartolommei family has farmed this corner of Montalcino since 1911, first as sharecroppers for the Castelli-Martinozzi family at what is now Pieve Santa Restituta, before buying the Caprili property outright in 1965 and planting the Madre vineyard that same year. 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The pressed must goes into sealed 100-liter oak caratelli along with the madre, the dense mother left from earlier vintages, and ages seven years in the vinsantaia under the roof, where summer heat and winter cold drive a slow oxidative transformation, followed by at least six months in bottle. The result is amber to mahogany and sweet but cut by firm acidity: dried apricot, fig, candied orange peel, walnut, caramel, and toffee, with a long, saline, almost savory finish. The 2018 was a cool, rainy Tuscan vintage that demanded strict bunch selection before drying. 375ml.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFèlsina was founded in 1966 by Domenico Poggiali, who found an old cellar cut into the tufa hills and set about making serious wine from a property that had mostly grown olives under sharecroppers. 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In 2015 the estate was sold to a group of American investors led by Gary Rieschel, with Matthew Fioretti running it day to day. That transition could have flattened the place. Instead Fioretti tightened the farming, which is now worked to strict organic standards, and kept the house style, which is precision and transparency rather than power. Grammatica is where that team does its thinking out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePappardelle with a slow pork and tomato ragu, finished with parmesan, is the direct hit, because Sangiovese's acidity is built for tomato. Grilled chicken thighs with lemon, garlic, and rosemary work because the wine is light enough not to bury poultry. Ribollita, the Tuscan bread and bean soup, with a hard pour of olive oil over the top. Or a plate of prosciutto, pecorino toscano, and good bread with nothing else going on. 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The soils are a patchwork rather than a type: gravelly alluvial material washed down from the Colline Metallifere behind, marine clay, limestone, and sand left from when the sea covered the plain. A zonation study led by Attilio Scienza identified 27 distinct soil units inside the appellation. Sea breezes funneling through the Tuscan archipelago hold the growing area roughly a degree cooler than the coastline itself and keep the canopy dry. That last part matters more than it sounds, because in a wet year the airflow is the difference between a crop and no crop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuidalberto is not declassified Sassicaia. It is its own wine from its own parcels, and the blend is different: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, roughly 55\/45 in 2023, where Sassicaia is Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Merlot is the whole point. The estate ran more than twenty years of trials before releasing the first vintage in 2000, looking for aromatic depth and a softer middle that shows early rather than after a decade in a cellar. Aging is about twelve months in barrel. Blackcurrant, plum, graphite, cedar, dried tobacco, and a green-herb lift off the Cabernet. Medium-full, with polished tannin and enough freshness to keep the fruit from going sweet. Spring 2023 was wet on the coast, and downy mildew and hail cost the appellation crop, but the maritime airflow spared Bolgheri the worst of it. Alcohols landed a half-degree to a degree lower than usual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMario Incisa della Rocchetta inherited a vast Bolgheri property in the 1940s and did something nobody else on that coast was doing: he planted Bordeaux varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, in a place with no fine-wine reputation and no tradition of them. The first plantings went into the Castiglioncello vineyard, set back from the sea at higher elevation. From 1945 to 1967 the wine was made only for family and friends. The 1968, released in 1971, was the first commercial Sassicaia and the start of everything Bolgheri has since become. Giacomo Tachis came in as consulting enologist, and Mario's son Nicolo Incisa has run the estate since. Guidalberto takes its name from Guidalberto della Gherardesca, the nineteenth-century ancestor who built the Viale dei Cipressi, the cypress avenue that still marks the road to the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBistecca alla fiorentina, salt and olive oil only, is the obvious call and the correct one, because Cabernet tannin wants char and fat. A grilled ribeye works the same way at home. Slow-braised short ribs with rosemary and a little tomato find the Merlot half of the blend. 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The estate takes its name from a 19th-century railroad station that still stands within its boundaries. Soils are calcareous clay, rich in fine gravel, ground that gives Sangiovese here freshness and minerality rather than sheer power. Montalcino sits south of Chianti Classico, warmer and drier, with more Mediterranean influence, and Pian delle Vigne's vineyards translate that into a Rosso built on brightness and lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Sangiovese. Grapes are destemmed, gently crushed, and fermented in stainless steel at a controlled 26°C for 8 to 10 days, then aged about 10 months after malolactic fermentation before bottling. The 2023 growing season opened rainy through April and May, then turned hot and dry for summer; strong diurnal swings during ripening kept the Sangiovese aromatic, and harvest began September 11th with fruit in excellent health. The wine is ruby red, with black cherry, blood orange, and jasmine-like white flower on the nose. The palate is vibrant and supple, silky tannins carrying through to a long finish of strawberry and blood orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Antinori family bought the Pian delle Vigne estate in 1995, the same year as the first Pian delle Vigne Brunello, establishing it as their outpost in Montalcino. The Rosso is Antinori's way of showing pure Sangiovese from this site without the extended aging Brunello requires, a more direct fruit expression from the same vineyards and soils. It sits alongside Tignanello and Guado al Tasso as one of the family's regional interpretations of a single place and grape, farmed with the same attention to site that defines the rest of the portfolio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrilled pork chops with sage, a simple margherita pizza, roasted chicken with rosemary potatoes, or a bowl of pici with tomato and pecorino. 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Soils are alluvial, ranging from sandy clay to silty clay, with pockets of the coarse gravel known locally as scheletro. Sea breezes off the nearby Tyrrhenian keep summer heat in check and moderate winter cold, and that maritime influence, more than elevation, defines Bolgheri's structured, fruit-forward reds. Bolgheri DOC was only established in 1994, but the region is now one of Italy's most closely watched for Bordeaux-style blends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIl Bruciato draws on Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, and other Bordeaux varieties from across Guado al Tasso's vineyards. Fruit is destemmed and gently crushed, then fermented and macerated on the skins in temperature-controlled stainless steel for 15 to 20 days at 28 to 30°C, with a portion of the Merlot and Syrah kept cooler to protect their aromatics. Malolactic fermentation runs in both barrique and stainless steel, finishing by year's end; the blend then returns to barrique for at least six months before bottling. The 2024 season brought early budbreak, a cool wet spring, and a hot dry summer, with harvest running from late August (Merlot) into late September (Cabernet Sauvignon), interrupted by scattered rain that helped preserve freshness. The wine is intense ruby red, with raspberry and cherry fruit, vanilla, tobacco, and a faint note of cotton candy on the nose, filling out to a fresh, persistent palate with a fruit-driven finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIl Bruciato was first made in 2002, in what the estate calls one of the toughest vintages Guado al Tasso had seen, created to give Bolgheri's terroir a wine of its own outside the flagship Guado al Tasso label. The blend and the specific vineyard plots dedicated to it have shifted over the years as the estate identified which parcels suit the wine best. Guado al Tasso is one of the Antinori family's Tuscan estates, part of a winemaking history that traces back to 1385, and the property is considered a benchmark for the modern Bolgheri style alongside neighbors like Sassicaia and Ornellaia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrilled sausages with fennel and peppers, a Tuscan-style bistecca, pizza with pepperoni and calabrian chili, roasted chicken with olives, or a tomato-based pasta with pancetta. 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The site runs hot by day and cools sharply at night, a swing that keeps acidity intact through a long ripening season. This is the core of Chianti Classico, the hill country between the Greve and Pesa river valleys, and the Tignanello vineyard is regarded, alongside Solaia next door, as one of the most consequential sites in modern Italian winemaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78% Sangiovese, 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 4% Cabernet Franc, fermented separately in truncated conical tanks with maceration on the skins, then moved to small oak barrels to complete malolactic fermentation. Aging runs just over 13 months in French oak with a small percentage of Hungarian oak, followed by 12 months in bottle before release. The 2022 growing season ran hot and dry through August in Chianti Classico; mid-August rain and cooler temperatures restored the diurnal swing ahead of harvest, with Sangiovese and Cabernet Franc picked mid-September and Cabernet Sauvignon in early October. The wine is intensely ruby red with purple hues. Cherry, ripe black cherry, and pomegranate lead the nose, with violets, balsamic hints, and vanilla underneath. The palate is dense and fresh, with supple tannins and a long finish that echoes the fruit on the nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarchesi Antinori has been making wine in Tuscany since 1385, one of Italy's oldest wine families and still run by the same family today. Tignanello was Piero Antinori's break from Chianti Classico convention: released in 1971, it was the first Sangiovese aged in barriques, the first modern Tuscan red blended with Cabernet, and one of the first reds from the region made without white grapes. The label carries the signature of Piero's father, Niccolò, a nod to his confidence in the project. Tignanello is bottled only in favorable vintages, skipped entirely in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1992, and 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTignanello has the structure for a serious meal: grilled ribeye with rosemary and garlic, braised short ribs, wild boar ragu over pappardelle, or grilled lamb chops with a red wine reduction. The tannins need fat and protein to soften, and the wine's acidity keeps richer dishes from feeling heavy. 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That nearness to the mountains is the point. Summers stay cooler here than farther south in Chianti and the swing between afternoon heat and night chill is wide, so Sangiovese ripens slowly across the whole season and holds its acid. Soils are the classic Tuscan pair, galestro and alberese, flaky schist over hard limestone. Rufina took its DOC in 1967 and DOCG in 1984, but Cosimo III de' Medici had already drawn part of its boundary in a proclamation of 1716.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNinety-five percent Sangiovese, the rest split among the traditional Rufina partners Canaiolo, Colorino and Malvasia Nera. Fruit comes from organically farmed parcels clustered around the villa, still carrying the names of the old sharecropping farms: Bucerchiale, Fornace, Casanova, Pesalova, Vigna al Pino. Fermentation is spontaneous, the estate having abandoned selected yeasts in 1992, and sulfur additions run well below what the cellar once used. Vinification happens in temperature-controlled stainless steel and in concrete casks carried over from the old cellar, with maceration lasting at least thirty days. Aging for this bottling leans on concrete, with smaller portions in steel and large foudre, so no oak flavor lands on the fruit. The 2024 season was long and largely dry: a rainy but cool spring kept mildew pressure low, veraison arrived early, and mid-August showers spared the vines real water stress. Federico Giuntini reported uniform ripening and healthy, thick-skinned grapes. Sour cherry, dried orange peel, tobacco leaf and iron, on fine-grained tannin and a spine of acid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichele Giuntini, a Florentine banker, bought Selvapiana in 1827, and the family has held it since. His descendant Francesco Giuntini ran the estate from 1957 to 1997 and spent those four decades arguing that Rufina deserved a name of its own. He was among the first Tuscan producers to make his Riserva entirely from Sangiovese, and in 1979 he bottled the Bucerchiale parcel separately, a single-vineyard Chianti at a moment when almost nobody was making one. In 1978 he hired a young Franco Bernabei as consulting enologist; Bernabei still advises the estate. Since 1997 the property has been run by Federico and Silvia, adopted children of Francesco and children of Franco Masseti, who managed Selvapiana from 1953 to 1990. 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Today Podere Capaccia sits at 550 meters on a hill above the Pesa River valley in northern Radda in Chianti, ringed by steep woods, with Montevertine and Castello di Albola as neighbors. Radda is one of the highest and coolest communes in Chianti Classico, and that altitude slows ripening and keeps Sangiovese taut and aromatic. The estate's vineyards face south, catch constant summer breezes, and grow in soils rich in sandstone, limestone, and shale, ground that gives Radda Sangiovese its fine tannin and lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePodere Capaccia Chianti Classico 2022 is Sangiovese from a drought year that turned at the last moment. The winter of 2021 to 2022 was very dry, spring and summer brought no relief, and yields across Tuscany fell. Rains in mid to late August and early September proved the vintage's saving grace, and cool nights helped preserve acidity; Chianti Classico's Sangiovese harvest began around September 10. At this altitude, that late-season rain arrived in time. The estate's Chianti Classico is typically 100% Sangiovese, hand harvested in late September, sorted berry by berry, fermented in stainless steel for about four weeks, and aged around 18 months in 25-hectoliter oak casks. Expect dark cherry and red mulberry with violet, cinnamon, and a peppery leaf edge, firm acidity, and a mineral, slightly brackish finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOwners Herman De Bode and Fanny Huygen bought Capaccia in 2010 with a clear brief: restore the medieval buildings, revive the old vineyards, and make one of Italy's best wines. They built an underground cellar beneath the hamlet and assembled a small technical team. Winemaker and director Alyson Morgan, a UC Davis graduate, has run the cellar since 2012 and brings two decades of experience in Chianti Classico. Vineyard manager Donato Alvino has tended the estate's vines for more than 20 years, through the change in ownership, across parcels with names like Cortaccio and Le Campanelle. The estate farms organically and was listed as in organic conversion by the Chianti Classico consortium. Production stays small.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrill a bistecca alla fiorentina over oak coals and finish it with olive oil and coarse salt; Sangiovese's acidity and tannin cut through the char and fat. Pici with a slow-cooked duck ragù matches the wine's dark cherry core. Ribollita with Tuscan kale and cannellini picks up the herbal, peppery edge. For an easy plate, try pecorino Toscano with fig jam and walnuts, where the acid lifts the salt. 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