Etiket: Classico
Querciabella 2019, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
This pure organic Sangiovese is undeniably charming, but it is not easy. You have to lean over her shoulder to fall in love with her fragrances. The cherry is black…
Chianti Classico 2020, Tenuta di Renieri, Tuscany, Italy
This is a Sangiovese that makes you “salivate”, as if the saliva were constantly swallowed to, ultimately, pull itself together in the mid-palate under tannins whose impact gently firmed up…
[Billet vins] The word in Chianti Classico (2nd part)
The incursion continues this week in the Chianti Classico appellation, with its essential Sangiovese grape variety. Among the 40 samples tasted blind — and as already mentioned in these same…
[Billet vins] A word from Chianti Classico
Nearly 40 samples of Chianti Classico were sent to the Duty by the agencies (which we thank by the way), just to mark the event Anteprime di Toscana held in…
Chianti Classico Riserva 2018, Piccini, Tuscany, Italy
At less than $20, this incredible quality/pleasure/price/authenticity ratio turns out to be an appetizer for the Chianti Classicos that will be offered right here in the February 24 edition. Yes,…
Chianti Classico 2019, Fontodi, Tuscany, Italy
This is an exceptional organic vintage. A concentrate of the best Sangiovese has to offer, with a definition, stature and substance that already place it above the fray, in Italy…
Brancaia No2 2020, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
This pure organic Sangiovese inscribes its ripe cherry fruitiness with fine, supple, fresh and tasty tannins, just stimulated by a judicious woody note. Highly recommendable. In the same spirit, with…
Volpaia Chianti Classico 2019 | Treats: pleasing safe bet
I don’t remember ever being disappointed by this wine. Admittedly, each vintage is different, but it always demonstrates balance and harmony, finesse and complexity. Posted at 3:00 p.m. Veronique Rivest…
Brigaldara Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2016 | Indulgence: warm, yes, but impressively harmonious
Cold season wine par excellence, amarone, made with dried grapes and therefore rich in sugar, can sometimes be too much — too concentrated, too alcoholic. Posted yesterday at 3:00 p.m.…
The Miccine “Gran Selezione” 2016, Chianti Classico
We quickly let ourselves be carried away in an aromatic and gustatory vortex, already, by decanting this great Sangiovese. What follows testifies to an exceptional terroir, but also to a…
Castellare di Castellina 2020, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
In the historic heart of beautiful Tuscany, between Siena and Florence, which has nothing to envy to Quartier DIX30 in Brossard, PQ, Sangiovese waltzes its fruitiness with grace and sovereign…
Poggerino 2020, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
A papal blessing this pure Sangiovese. To be offered without confession to those who bend their knees to better bathe their interior in assumed ecstasies. Alright, back to earth. Here…
Chianti Classico 2019, Tenuta di Renieri, Tuscany, Italy
This is well packaged. Without falling in the least into bogus extraction, but rather into the liberating herbal tea of beautiful fresh, ripe and very civilized tannins. A pure Sangiovese…
Ser Lapo 2018, Mazzei, Chianti Classico Riserva, Tuscany, Italy
This Chianti from Mazzei is gaining popularity with consumers, like the famous Villa Antinori in another era, in the same price range. With good reason, moreover, because this Sangiovese (90%)…
Carpineta Fontalpino “Dofana” 2017, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
The Montaperto and Dofana crus complement each other here, the latter offering the thickness, texture and fine density linked to the clayey subsoils which give it a touch of austerity,…
Bonacosta 2020, Valpolicella Classico, Masi, Veneto, Italy
The valpolicella as it is, all crunchy, all tasty, enthusiastic about a handful of ripe cherries crushed to the bite, just to celebrate the rest, as sincere as it is…
Costasera 2016, Amarone Classico, Masi, Veneto, Italy
Like summer for rosé, winter invites red wine to double in power, concentration, thickness and volume to better seal the palate, with this kind of luxuriance likely to evoke the…
Casa di Columbo 2016, Tenuta la Novella, Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy
At under $ 25, here’s a mature red that’s not lacking in style or elegance. Sangiovese as it is presented, with this contribution of cherry quickly enriched by pretty notes…
With “Organized Classico“, Jul brings together 157 rappers from Paris and Marseille for a triple album
After the stratospheric success of 13 Organized, the compilation bringing together 50 names of Marseille rap, rapper Jul saw even bigger: Thursday evening at midnight, he will be released Classico…
With “Organized Classico“, Jul brings together 157 rappers from Paris and Marseille for a triple album
After the stratospheric success of 13 Organized, the compilation bringing together 50 names of Marseille rap, rapper Jul saw even bigger: Thursday evening at midnight, he will be released Classico…