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
An austere expression of the vintage, showing cherry-pit minerality, wax, licorice and red currants. Medium-bodied, energetic and supple, with refined tannins and crisp acidity. Tense and vibrant, offering red cherries and a muscular yet chewy finish. Drinkable now but best from 2027.
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Wine Spectator
Developing aromas and flavors of leather and woodsy underbrush are layered with raspberry, cherry and plum notes in this dense red. Nonetheless, this is fresh, combining intensity and finesse. Dusty, mouthcoating tannins leave their lock on the compact finish for now.
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.