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The 2021 Fontalloro is terrific. This is classic Fontalloro, a wine that offers notable density along with the wilder personality of Sangiovese—partly from the Colli Senesi. As such, it is a somewhat rustic wine, but it’s one that will be a fine accompaniment at the dinner table. Leather, incense, tobacco and scorched earth complement a wine that shows the darker, wilder side of the variety. Pretty floral top notes appear with aeration. I would cellar this for a few years.
- By Antonio Galloni on June 2024
My recent visit to Fèlsina was one of the highlights of the two weeks I spent in Chianti Classico in June 2024. The 2021s are fabulous wines that capture all the best the vintage has to offer. The wines are incredibly distinctive, archetypes of Castelnuovo Berardenga, the sort of wines that will delight readers who enjoy Chianti Classico in all its guises. The 2022s are very good wines for the year and quite illustrative of the positives and negatives of the vintage. More than anything else, though, I was delighted to see the Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Rancia, the estate’s flagship, back to its customary level of excellence after two years in which the wine suffered because of the inclusion of a parcel that added a slight vegetal character and ultimately did not work in the blend. The new Occhio di Pernice – as a matter of speaking, as it is a 2007 – is superb.
