Tom Casagrande

8.9

Popped and poured, zero sediment. Color shows a little amber at the rim. Nose smells a bit tertiary for a wine only 6 years old. Scents of rioe, macerated cherry competing with old leather and some mahogany furniture scent. Lots of dessicated gravel too. In the mouth it’s a bit lean, with puckery tannins and a shortish finish. Flavors on entry are on the savory side. Lacks fruit somewhat on the palate. Just OK, which is disappointing for this wine.

UPDATE: On night 2, after being under a vacuum closure, it’s showing more depth, liveliness, and fruit. Upping the score from 8.7 on night one to 8.9 on night 2. — 9 days ago

Rand Bass

9.0

2020 excellent! — 5 days ago

with Debra

Angelo Casagrande

9.0

Plum, sour cherry, and leather. Firm tannins. Excellent with tomato- based dishes. Pretty good on its own. My tomatoes are ripening; this works. — a month ago

Bonnie Chu

8.9

Chianti Classico Tasting @ Ai Fiori 4/27/26 — 2 months ago

M. Christopher Roebuck

9.3

Excellent value. Very smooth interpretation of sangiovese more akin to a very good Rosso if not Brunello.

93 points — 2 months ago

Anthony De Blasi

9.4

This is other stuff compared to the Istine. But also another pricetag…big and bold, more “rustic”. Good wine! — 4 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

This has developed beautifully — 5 months ago

Sam Friedland

9.1

Great wine with cherries, chocolate and Rasberries, Was great with spicy Putanesca, — 10 days ago

Ryan

8.9

Elegant with tannic austerity and complex aromas. Delicious to sip — 15 days ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Year in, year out, this is my fav Chianti Classico. To me it captures all what I look for in a good every day Sangiovese - freshness, a bit of tannic edge, juicy flow, a savory sweetness to the fruit. And food friendliness!
Enticing nose with red cherries, a bit of wet undergrowth & turned earth, a bit of tomato leaf, a flowery whiff. Joyful!
Medium bodied on the palate with great energy & flow. The tannins present, a touch rustic, but in a nice way, the acidity juicy & vibrant. Nice depth and long finish.
So drinkable but also has some seriousness to it.
Love Monsanto! — a month ago

Kristoffer Roupé

8.9

Bröllopsmiddag på Café Nero på winery hotel — a month ago

Bonnie Chu

9.0

Chianti Classico Tasting @ Ai Fiori 4/27/26 — 2 months ago

Mo

9.2

Tasting great after 75 mins of aeration. Model Sangiovese flavors. Served with antipasti: pesto shrimp, grape leaves, hummus, aged 12-month manchego, and burrata. — 3 months ago

Jody Scharf

8.9

dark in color, cherries abound but tannins too light for this palate. — 5 months ago

R D B

9.3

Good Chianti. Blackberry and fruit notes with some acidity. Finished nicely. — 15 days ago

Rob van Kalmthout

9.3

Dark cherries, bramble, leather, earthy and mediterraen spices. Love the acidity backed with fine minerality. Good balance. Wine really lasts. — 18 days ago

Jeremiah Diaz

9.2

Clear, medium ruby in color; on the nose, it's clean with pronounced primary and secondary aromas of raspberries, balsamic, and wood smoke; on the palate, it's dry, with high acidity, high tannins, medium body, high alcohol, and pronounced primary and secondary flavors of red currant, cherries, and clay pots with a long finish. This wine is balanced and complex. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. Nellie likes it too. — a month ago

with Nellie

Andrew Cullimore

9.2

Medium ruby , with a medium wide garnet rim . Cut herbs and some spice on the nose , sage , thyme , porcini and cedar . There is some spiced cherry fruit and rose underneath , this shows some development . On the palate there are spiced red cherries , dried herbs, gaining complexity with time in the glass. Fresh acidity and grippy tannin . Good menthol tinged finish . This is well balanced , though there is still good density the alcohol is balanced. It is showing a bit of development, the aromatics are really inviting and there is good complexity on the palate too. The last glass was the best , showing ample structure and a darker fruit character so I think this will age a bit further the tannins are still a bit noticeable, so from now (with time in the glass or decanter ) and over the next 8-12 years. At Ristorante Buca Lapi, Florence . — 2 months ago

Robert B

9.1

Raspberry jam on the nose. Cherry and plum with nice acidity to start on the tongue blending out to cherry, raspberry, leather and oak then finishing in cocoa and a hint of oak. Medium tannins. Went well with my stuffed banana peppers. — 2 months ago

Angelo Casagrande

9.1

Had this with pasta and a vodka sauce, and garlic bread. Delicious Wednesday night! Pillow - soft in the mouth. Cherry, tar, old mohagany. Tannins integrated enough to drink on its own, but with the food- lovely. — 4 months ago