This is a full-bodied and compact red with ripe red berry character and hints of earthiness and ground spices. Firm, fine-grained tannins with a solid structure, succulent red fruit and a lingering finish. Drink or hold.

Showing a more contemporary style, the 2015 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Bellezza (100% Sangiovese) offers extra fruit padding and richness that accompanies this wine as it washes over the palate. On the nose, you get dark fruit, dried cherry, Spanish Cedar, tobacco and grilled herb. There is a note of fruity sourness on the close, but Bellezza compensates with its robust textural richness and Sangiovese-driven acidity. Some 26,400 bottles were made.

The 2013 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Bellezza (100% Sangiovese) is the belle of the ball among this group of new releases. The wine offers bright intensity with a direct and honest delivery. The bouquet peels back to show wild fruit, balsam herb, cola and moist chewing tobacco. As the wine warms in the glass, it delivers more rosemary-like intensity that adds to the brightness and the direct appeal of the wine.

Here is another wine that has been moved up to Gran Selezione status. The 2011 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Bellezza (100% Sangiovese) shows tight fruit flavors that are a bit nervous and closed at this young stage. In fact, you get a clearer sense of the oak spice flavors than you do the natural fruit. After a few moments in the glass, the wine opens to dark cherry and blackberry. Bellezza is soft, mellow and silky in terms of its tannins.

Notes of tar and red fruit. Initially ripe berry fruit followed by rounded vanilla oak. Long, intense and elegant.