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As regards the Dal Forno, cellar it and bring it out for your next important anniversary, but not next year, nor the one after! Meanwhile, try the Bertani Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2012 (No. But, when you put your glass down, what you are left with is a sense of exquisite balance, despite the well-known potency of this wine.Īnd this emphasis on elegance and balance is a trait that many Amarone producers seem to be following, and that’s good news. You hover over the glass with your nose and are transported into a sublime world of complex aromas and flavors to savor. 2 wine, the Romano Dal Forno Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta 2015, was a mind-blowing moment.

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This is sure to be an ongoing discussion.Īnd our tastings were full of surprises and delights. On the face of it, producers in the Langhe, the Barolo-producing zone in Piedmont, seem to have been better placed to deal with the extreme growing season in 2017 than their colleagues in the Tuscan hilltop town of Montalcino. 16), Elio Grasso Barolo Ginestra Casa Maté 2017 (No. None appears among the top 10, but there are some fabulous Barolo 2017s to try, such as Roberto Voerzio Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata 2017 (No. On the other hand, all 19 Barolos included in the list are from the challenging 2017 vintage. They are all 2016 Riservas, and this is probably the last opportunity to snap up wines from that fantastic vintage on release. Of the 12 Brunellos on our list, none are from the 2017 vintage. After tasting nearly 400 Barolo 2017s and over 170 Brunello 2017s, our list goes some way in answering the question. At the start of 2021, the big question among the tasting team was how producers in Piedmont and Tuscany would have coped with the most recently released vintage – the very hot 2017.

In the past, it was filled with the latest-release Barolos and Brunellos. On close scrutiny, our Top 100 Italy list may look a little different this year. The greatest number of wines on our Top 100 list come from Tuscany (41), followed by Piedmont (19), the Northeast (15), Sicily (9), Veneto (8), Campania (6), and Sardinia and Umbria with one each. We tasted more than 6,000 Italian wines this year and that itself is an achievement, considering the conditions during the pandemic. READ MORE: CHIANTI CLASSICO’S TOP DESIGNATION UPS WINE GAME AMID RULE CHANGES It was current owner Francesco Ricasoli’s ancestor who, back in 1872, drew on the family’s experience to come up with the original formula for Chianti wine, and they have continued to lead the way for the area’s producers since then. In fact, the noble Ricasoli family started making wine in 1140 (no typo there!) and today farm around 240 hectares of vineyards in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.

2 spot on our recently published Global Top 100 Wines of 2021, comes from one of the most historic producers in the Chianti Classico zone.

This world-beating Chianti Classico red, which also took the No. James remarked back in May that it was “perhaps the greatest” Chianti Classico he had ever tasted, while noting the complex aromas of crushed cherries, sour cherries, peaches, bark and hints of meat. 1 spot on our list of Top 100 Italian wines – the Barone Ricasoli Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Ceniprimo 2018. 'redirect_url': '?s=',įor the first time ever at, a Chianti Classico from Tuscany has taken the No. 'noresultstext': 'No results for Tasting Notes, Tasting Reports, Videos and Events.