- Robert Parker (RP) points 96
- Vinous points
Tignanello
Price
€302.40 ex. VAT
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Tasting notes
The 2015 Tignanello is a wine that opens, like a fully blossomed rose, right in front of you. This vintage is immediately accessible, generous, and opulent. The wine will surely flesh out and gain focus with more bottle age, but one of the best qualities of this vintage is just how beautiful the wine tastes straight out of the gate. The fruit is beautifully ripe with fresh blackberry and cherry nuances, spice, leather, sweet tobacco, and smoke. Up until this vintage, the various blending components that make up Tignanello were vinified in separate lots. Starting with 2015, the wine is blended sooner to achieve better overall integration. The entire Tignanello estate counts 130 hectares of vines, but the single vineyard "Tignanello" that makes this wine is 57 hectares.
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Provenance
- Type
- Red
- Producer
- Marchesi Antinori
- Country
- Italy
- Appellation
- Toscana IGT
- Region
- Tuscany
Technical
- Vintage
- 2015
- ABV
- 14.5%
- Size
- 75cl
- Ageing
- Serving
- 16° - 18° C
- Drinking window
Food pairings
Key characteristics
About this wine
To hit the market in June, the 2016 Tignanello is a rock-solid wine and a stunning beauty. The wine offers an impeccable level of precision and laser-focus delivery of fruits, spices, tilled earth, espresso beans and Mediterranean herbs. This vintage follows the classic blending formula of 80% Sangiovese with about 13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc. The vines are now 15 to 20 years old. Compared to the 2015 vintage that ultimately appeared chewier and succulent, this expression from the iconic 2016 vintage is more vibrant, nervous, and jazzed. It shows more savoury spice, saltiness and minerality, with a beautifully integrated quality of tannins.
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Behind the bottle
Producer
Marchesi Antinori
Antinori is the most famous name in Italian wine and the influence of Piero Antinori in the last 25 years has been nothing short of revolutionary. Antinori's flagship wine, Tignanello, first appeared in 1971 and caused a…
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Region
Tuscany
Italy's most ancient wine region, Tuscany may not be a heavyweight in terms of quantity, but as the home of two of the country's most famous fine wines, Chianti and Brunello di Montalcino, it certainly holds its own in terms…
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Appellation
Toscana IGT
Toscana IGT is a wine appellation located in the central region of Italy, known for producing some of the finest wines in the world. The history of winemaking in Toscana dates back to the Etruscan era, and the region has been…
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