The 2017 Bolgheri Superiore (a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc and 7% Petit Verdot) opens to dense richness and concentrated flavors of blackberry, pressed cherry, sweet spice and campfire ash. It could be the cumulative effect of all these 2017s tasted together, but the tannins feel too tight on this wine, as they do on many of the others in this peer group. I taste the astringency of the ripe fruit and of the oak. This wine aged in oak (both tonneaux and barrique) for 16 months, and 18,000 bottles were made.

A thickly textured red, packed with solid tannins, this delivers mulberry, plum, iron, cedar and tar flavors. Monolithic today, with tannins leaving a strong grip on the long finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Best from 2024 through 2038. 833 cases made, 50 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Bolgheri Select to Add