Tuscan Wine

Vicchiomaggio's Chianti Classico bottlings are the estate's headline act, but this single-vineyard Toscana is where the same hand shows a...

980 is the top of Villa Saletta's range, drawn from one hectare at the crown of the Colline cru rather than from the estate at large.

Carpineto's Montalcino estate is one of the highest in the appellation, and altitude is what this Riserva tastes of: perfume and mineral ...

Riserva here means two years in large oak and at least six months in bottle before Carpineto will let it go, and the 2020 arrives already open.

This is the wine the estate is named for: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot off the oldest plantings on the Tuscan coast, fermented in large ...

Poggio alle Mura is the castle estate at the heart of Banfi's Montalcino holding, and this is the Brunello that carries its name rather t...

Badia a Coltibuono has farmed this land since 1846 and organically since 1995, long before it was fashionable.

Gran Selezione is the top rung of Chianti Classico, and this is one of the few made by an estate that has farmed organically since 1988.

Banfi's estate Brunello is the benchmark against which most people first learn the appellation: two years minimum in a mix of large Frenc...

Riccardi is Villa Saletta's Sangiovese, off two hectares at Santa Margherita rather than a blend across the estate.

Bolgheri is known for its reds, and this is what the same sandy, sea-cooled ground does with a white grape.

Querciabella has farmed organically since 1988, long before it was fashionable, and blends three very different Chianti Classico sites --...

Villa Saletta is a 1,400-hectare estate near Pisa brought back from ruin over the past two decades, and Giulia is the Bordeaux-grape half...

Petra's entry red is the Maremma without the oak — eight months in concrete, so the black cherry and maquis herbs come through clean.

A single-vineyard Merlot from the Tuscan coast, made in a deliberately fresh style: whole-berry handling, long maceration and only 30% ne...

Cultus is the estate's barrique-aged Riserva, built from massal-selection vines propagated off Badia a Coltibuono's oldest plantings.

Badia a Coltibuono first bottled this wine at the estate in the 1950s and it remains the house benchmark: the traditional Sangiovese blen...