Winemaker Notes
Boscarelli Il Nocio Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is a garnet red, with well-orchestrated wood that is worked into the ripe, sweet fruit and layered complexity.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A dark, austere wine with super-youthful style and vibrant complexity. Pure black cherries on the nose are allied with earthy minerality. Full-bodied with firm and velvety tannins, a very juicy and supple palate, concentrated fruit and a crisp finish. The aftertaste is tight and thick yet ripe. Best after 2025.
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Wine Spectator
Macerated cherry, strawberry, pomegranate and sweet spice flavors are allied to a silky texture in this sleek, powerful red. Underscored by muscular tannins, with ample fruit for balance. The superb, complex aftertaste picks up mineral and wild herb elements. Still youthful, this appears to be a long-distance runner. Best from 2027 through 2045.
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Wine Enthusiast
The nose is layered with sweet and tart berries, dark chocolate, iron-rich tilled soil and anise, while the palate is bright and juicy with plenty more fresh berries, and also brings explosive acid, salt and a peppery heat that blazes past tightly coiled tannins all the way through the finish.
Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.
This significant Tuscan village—not to be confused with the red grape of the same name widely grown in Abruzzo and the Marche regions—was home to one of the first four Italian DOCGs granted in 1980.
Based on the Sangiovese grape (here called Prugnolo Gentile), the village’s prized wine called Vino Nobile di Montepulciano ranks stylistically in between Chianti Classico, for its finesse, and Brunello di Montalcino for its power. With a deep ruby color, heavy concentration and a firm structure given by the village's heavy, cool clay soils, most Vino Nobile di Montepulciano will demand some bottle age.