Winemaker Notes
The Bossona, fruit of Dei's best vineyard, is full-bodied, complex and elegant. Intense and refined fragrances, with plenty of ripe fruits and hints of violets. Fine silky tannins and a long and rich finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Aromas of mature black-skinned berry, baked plum, mint and violet mix with whiffs of dark culinary spice. The ripe chewy palate doles out raspberry jam, fleshy black cherry and licorice set against firm, polished tannins. The juicy fruit flavors deftly support the hefty alcohol. Drink through 2022.
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Wine Spectator
Plush, showing good underlying grip, this red plies the generous structure with black cherry, plum, licorice, wild herb and spice flavors. Balanced, with time to give, finishing long and evoking earth and mineral elements. Drink now through 2029.
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James Suckling
A chewy and juicy red with chocolate, berry and spice character. Medium body. Savory finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2012 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva Bossona shows some tertiary definition with dried fruit, prune, tar and smoke. In character, the wine is slightly brambly and wild. This is an elegantly streamlined and polished expression that offers lots of Sangiovese typicity. Wet earth and moist tobacco play an important role, aromatically speaking.
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.