Maremma & Bolgheri

50% Merlot, 20% Cab Sauv and Cab France and 10% Syrah Lovely blackberry and fragrant plum nose, some tobacco and dark chocolate. Again lovely black fruit core, good concentration lifted by a fresh acidity, feels lighter...(read more)

100% Syrah. Certified organic. 16 months in French oak, 20% new. Mid smudgy crimson. Very distinctive style of Syrah – I am not sure I would have recognised this as Syrah if I had tasted it blind. Lightly herbal and pepp...(read more)

The nose starts with a soft-serve swirl of vanilla and milk chocolate, then deepens into the richer sweetness of dark cherry syrup, which is balanced by the crackling sharpness of pepper and graphite. The palate turns ta...(read more)

Fermented in concrete, then aged in 100% new French oak Barrique. Deeply fragrant, some wood, but cherry flesh, blackberry and plum push through with chocolate and tobacco. Bright acid in the mouth makes you salivate, de...(read more)

A wine of texture and structure, the 2017 Messorio is deeply impressive. It is not simply that they have delivered a wine of substance and charm - so hard to find in a vintage plagued by heat spikes and drought. This is...(read more)