92pts Wine Spectator

This red starts out supple, revealing cherry, blackberry, violet and spice flavors. There's a line of dusty tannins underneath, yet this is balanced and long in the end. Best from 2025 through 2039.

91pts Wine Enthusiast

The stony, metallic nose is all graphite, pencil shavings, pennies and topsoil with subtle fruit aromas of cherry skin and orange peel scorched quickly to release its essential oil. Juicier cherries on the palate are still traced by graphite and crushed soil, held together with tightly wound tannins.

91pts Jeb Dunnuck

A much darker crimson color, the 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva is more forward with its oak profile at this youthful stage, with notes of toasted cedar, black licorice, black cherry, and woodsy forest herbs. Full-bodied, this profile continues to the palate with ripe tannins and good underlying freshness, its oak still hovering a bit on the finish as well. I imagine the oak will integrate to a certain extent, and the wine is likely to show its best in another couple of years. Drink 2025-2037.

90pts James Suckling

Dark cherries, baked cherries, cloves, herbs and cedar on the nose. It’s medium- to full-bodied with solid tannins. Quite firm still with a fruity frame and a chewy finish.

Vinous

The 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva offers up dark fruit, mocha, leather, licorice and spice, all in a hearty, full-bodied style. Rustic, potent contours wrap it all together.

Winemaker Notes

In the beautiful olive and cypress-studded countryside between Florence and Siena lay the quaint hilltop villages of the Chianti Classico region. The wine of the same name is produced exclusively in this charming and beautiful area.

Intense ruby red with garnet reflections. Elegant, full, harmonious, and persistent on the nose, with suggestions of vanilla and raspberry. On the palate, it is long, velvety, full, generous, and warm.

Perfect with roasts and game.