Wine Reviews

This trebbiano shows pretty dried pears and apples with some white pepper and salt. Chamomile. Full and layered with some phenolics and dried earth. Lots going on. Also a drop of malvasia.

Vibrant, with cherry, plum, earth, tobacco and wild herb aromas and flavors, this red also reveals a smoky note. Firms up nicely, all the while remaining fresh and complex, with a lingering aftertaste of fruit, earth and herbs. Sangiovese. Drink now through 2033.

The 2018 Vigna dell’Impero, Sette Ponti’s best Sangiovese, is gorgeous. It offers up an exciting mélange of crushed red berry fruit, sweet pipe tobacco, mint, anise and rose petal in a style that marries the transparency of Sangiovese with the textural richness these wines have always shown. That’s a pretty appealing combination in my book.

A new white from this estate and shows lots of orange-peel, apricot and floral character. Medium-bodied white with fresh acidity and a minerally finish. Hints of stone. Dried fruit at the end.

The wine is perfumed and elegant, with sour-cherry aromas. The attack is sleek and concentrated, and it’s fleshy without being over-opulent.