Winemaker Notes
#34 James Suckling Top 100 Wines of the World 2025
#75 Vinous Top 100 of 2025
Bòggina B is a little bit of Burgundy with a Tuscan twist. The wine is made with 100% Trebbiano Toscano. The clone of the Valdarno has been known for its quality since the 1300s, when it was regularly sent to the popes in Rome and the courts of Florence. Petrolo has been using Trebbiano grapes for its sweet vinsanto for decades, but owner Luca Sanjust decided that the time had come for a tribute to the great whites of Valdarno’s past.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Amazing aromas of honeysuckle, grapefruit, heather, rosemary, Meyer lemon and hints of blanched almonds. It’s medium- to full-bodied with a creamy texture and nougat flavors, as well as esters and lavender honey. Hint of beeswax, too. Burgundy method with ancient trebbiano vines. New standard for Italian whites. From organically grown grapes. Drink and enjoy.
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Wine Enthusiast
Like caviar and potato chips, I could have this wine for every single meal and never grow tired of it, and never feel unsatisfied. A masterpiece that you can afford to take home and hang on your own wall.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
An excellent interpretation of Trebbiano, the Petrolo 2023 Bòggina B, bottled with its distinctive yellow wax capsule, stands out decisively among the white wines tasted in this report. The level of workmanship and complexity is striking, with layers of stone fruit and spice interwoven with a delicate mineral thread that ultimately makes all the difference. These contrasting elements land on the palate with clarity and impact, resulting in a wine that delivers pleasure on multiple levels. Aged in tonneaux for 15 to 18 months, this Trebbiano was released with a touch of reduction to preserve freshness and aromatic lift.
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Vinous
The 2023 Trebbiano Boggina B is one of the best vintages of this wine I have tasted. Aromatic, layered and super-expressive, the 2023 is an absolute delight from the very first taste. Floral overtones meld into apricot, peach, almond, chamomile and dried herbs. Fermentation in barrel leaves a slightly phenolic, bitter character that is quite appealing. The long, substantial finish is eternal.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2023 Bòggina B, made from 100% Trebbiano from a specific Val d’Arno clone, pours a bright straw hue with a faint copper tint. The nose is lifted and distinctive, with smoky gunflint reduction alongside notes of hay, spiced citrus peel, dried earth, and resinous pine. Full-bodied, it has a waxy, rounded texture with softened acidity, offering layers of lemon oil, honeycomb, hazelnut, and subtle savory tones. Despite its reductive edge, it remains controlled and precise, with a stony lift through the finish. A singular and characterful wine with strong identity, it was aged 18 months on the lees in French tonneaux.
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Decanter
Tuscan Trebbiano is having a moment, and Boggina B is one of the ringleaders. Vinified in tonneaux with indigenous yeasts, then with regular batonnage, it opens with a reductive flinty, struck-match aroma. In the mouth it's creamy, herbal and zesty, with rich layers of orange peel, toast and salted buttery popcorn. An enjoyable alternative to Chardonnay, but very much its own thing – and it ages wonderfully.
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Wine Spectator
Defined by its long lees aging, this white features bread dough, biscuit, pine, thyme and lemon zest aromas and flavors. Starts out rich, focused by the vivid acidity on the salty, mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2032.
Compared to other white wine-producing varieties, Trebbiano claims some of the most vineyard acreage on a global scale. There are six distinct varieties with Trebbiano as part of their name in Italy alone. Trebbiano Toscano, one of the most popular, is deliciously light and crisp. Trebbiano d’Abruzzo actually has some aging potential when handled carefully. Somm Secret—Known as Ugni Blanc in France, Trebbiano is responsible for the whites in Southwest, France called Gascogne Blanc.
One of the most iconic Italian regions for wine, scenery and history, Tuscany is the world’s most important outpost for the Sangiovese grape. Tuscan wine ranges in style from fruity and simple to complex and age-worthy, Sangiovese makes up a significant percentage of plantings here, with the white Trebbiano Toscano coming in second.
Within Tuscany, many esteemed wines have their own respective sub-zones, including Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The climate is Mediterranean and the topography consists mostly of picturesque rolling hills, scattered with vineyards.
Sangiovese at its simplest produces straightforward pizza-friendly Tuscan wines with bright and juicy red fruit, but at its best it shows remarkable complexity and ageability. Top-quality Sangiovese-based wines can be expressive of a range of characteristics such as sour cherry, balsamic, dried herbs, leather, fresh earth, dried flowers, anise and tobacco. Brunello, an exceptionally bold Tuscan wine, expresses well the particularities of vintage variations and is thus popular among collectors. Chianti is associated with tangy and food-friendly dry wines at various price points. A more recent phenomenon as of the 1970s is the “Super Tuscan”—a red wine made from international grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Syrah, with or without Sangiovese. These are common in Tuscany’s coastal regions like Bolgheri, Val di Cornia, Carmignano and the island of Elba.