Winemaker Notes
Deep purple red color. Intense and complex bouquet on the nose with notes of espresso, sweet melted licorice, black currant, jam, tobacco and toasty oak. The palate is rich, full-bodied, elegant, with refined tannins.
Perfect with game, chicken, turkey, ham, aged cheese and mushrooms.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is really perfumed with blackcurrants, violets, lilacs and tangerines on the nose. Medium- to full-bodied with extremely wellintegrated and lightly chewy tannins that give focus and tension to the wine. A round and fine velvet texture gives this wine wonderful grace and sophistication. Cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot. From organically grown grapes. Unfiltered. Best after 2028.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This is the vintage currently on the market, and the 2021 won't come out until later in 2026. The Castello dei Rampolla 2020 d'Alceo is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Petit Verdot. This is a powerful and structured wine with brooding intensity and a generous bouquet built upon black fruit flavors, spice and pencil shaving. This vintage delivers good structure with firm tannins and a level of rigidity that comes from its youth. This will certainly soften with more bottle age. But even now, this wine is a stunner, with beautiful concentration, intensity and complexity. It's the full package and worth seeking out.
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Vinous
Deceptively medium in body, the 2020 D'Alceo offers up an exotic mélange of red plum fruit, spice, new leather, pomegranate and blood orange. Time in the glass releases layers of aromatic intensity to play off the wine's explosive energy. The 2020 is a very fine D'Alceo in the making. It spent 12 months in oak, mostly tonneaux and some barriques.
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Wine Spectator
This red delivers a beam of raspberry and cherry fruit, along with earth, iron and tobacco flavors. Packed with tannins and lively acidity. All of the components are in the right place, so give this time to reach its full potential. Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. Best from 2027 through 2040.
Legendary in Italy for its Renaissance art and striking landscape, Tuscany is also home to many of the country’s best red wines. Sangiovese reigns supreme here, as either the single varietal, or a dominant player, in almost all of Tuscany’s best.
A remarkable Chianti, named for its region of origin, will have a bright acidity, supple tannins and plenty of cherry fruit character. From the hills and valleys surrounding the medieval village of Montalcino, come the distinguished and age-worthy wines based on Brunello (Sangiovese). Earning global acclaim since the 1970s, the Tuscan Blends are composed solely of international grape varieties or a mix of international and Sangiovese. The wine called Vine Nobile di Montepulciano, composed of Prognolo Gentile (Sangiovese) and is recognized both for finesse and power.