Wine Reviews

This is ripe, boasting black cherry, boysenberry, leather and tar notes, plus a touch of milk chocolate. A dense matrix of broad, rough-hewn tannins backs this up, shutting down the finish at this stage.

There’s density and punch to this Brunello, with a line of beefy tannins underscoring its plum, cherry and blackberry fruit. Earth, iron and woodsy underbrush accents chime in as this plays out on the dusty, chalky finish.

Notes of pomegranate and rhubarb ride along with ripe strawberry notes to provide a substantial, lasting finish. Although definitely not sugary, there’s a ripe sweetness to the fruit notes that is cleverly offset by a touch of pleasant bitterness in the finish.

It offers impressive richness with no hint of oak but expressive fruit flavors recalling ripe pear and honeydew melon. Its palate weight is energized by acidity that’s so pleasantly vibrant that it almost seems prickly.

The 2024 rendition of this consistently fine rosé hits a winning balance between expressive fruit flavors and the sense of restraint that has made Provence the global standard for wines of this type…