This ruby-colored Riserva Sangiovese offers plush, thick density with loads of red cherry and background tones of toast, vanilla, pipe tobacco and moist earth. It’s a well-made, modern wine that ends on a soft, velvety high note.
— M.L.
(4/1/2011)
This 50–50 blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon offers impressive balance. It delivers a medley of red fruit, spice, leather, chocolate and tobacco notes. The palate is soft and rich on the finish.
— M.L.
(4/1/2013)
Plum and anise surround the berry fruit in the bouquet of this stylish medium-weight bottling. There’s a slightly chalky feel to the palate. Cherries, with more anise notes and a dry finish of powdery tannins, close this attractive value. Best now through 2002.
— W.E.
(4/1/2001)
A muted nose of red berries and earth opens to an even palate of cherry fruit with mineral and cocoa accents. This smoothly textured, lighter-styled wine is a good choice for antipasto, served a little cool. Still very young, it should be better in six months, too.
— W.E.
(4/1/2001)
Bulky and awkward at first, with grapey, powdery aromas. A touch green and funky at its core, but with enough surrounding black cherry and blackberry to hang in there. Finishes with firm tannins.
— W.E.
(4/1/2005)