Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has always been a superb red with beautiful aromas of crushed berries, flowers and hints of hazelnuts. It’s still tight and powerful with a full body and firm and lightly chewy tannins. Beautiful now to drink but one for the cellars.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Stylistically speaking, the 2004 Galatrona is impeccable. This stunning Merlot ushers forth a soft and velvety side that accompanies the wine over the senses, from nose to mouth. The oak element is beautifully integrated with sweet tannins and firm structure. The wine is built on solid foundations that give way to multiple layers of fruit and spice that build in soaring intensity and importance. If you have a bottle of this wine in your cellar, you may consider pulling it out soon. This wine is drinking beautifully at the moment and should continue to do so within the next decade.
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Wine Enthusiast
Galatrona is one of Italy’s top Merlots and 2004 is its best vintage yet. The mouthfeel is extraordinary, distinguished by spectacular smoothness and elegance: The wine drinks like a chiaroscuro painting where all elements are harmonious by design. And there’s excellent dimension with vibrant tones of red fruit and sweet spice woven within its fruity fabric. Cellar Selection.
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Wine Spectator
Fabulous aromas of crushed berries, milk chocolate and flowers. Very complex and multilayered. Full-bodied, with gorgeous flavors and an ultrafine finish. Goes on and on. The high quality and subtlety of the tannins is impressive. Greatest ever from this producer. Le Pin of Tuscany. Merlot.
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Wine & Spirits
A big, strapping merlot, this dense, black wine has honeyed sweetness to meld with the rich wood tannins. A hint of orange zest shows a little volatility, checked by the plumpness of the fruit. For the cellar.
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.