Winemaker Notes
This wine has a bright ruby-red color with purplish highlights. It is full on the nose, soft, rich in red fruit. On the palate it is round and pleasant with a full flavor of plum and cherry. It is a wine with velvety tannins, crisp acidity and a long and delicately spicy finish.
Versatile and intriguing, it can be drunk with all courses of a meal.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
An earthy, very herbaceous nose has sweeter notes of candied red apple and cherries providing pop. Cherries thrive on the palate above continued herbs, while blood orange emphasizes the cherry sweetness and also adds a tannic bite. Taub Family Selections.
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.