Castello Bolgheri, Bolgheri Superiore

Castello Bolgheri, Bolgheri SuperioreIn the bottle with the white label, the Castello di Bolgheri 2020 Bolgheri Superiore shows a hint of savory greenness with peppercorn, bay leaf, baked plum and blackberry preserves. The oak adds sweetness with cinnamon and nutmeg over a very generous mouthfeel with thick, chalky tannins that need a few more years of bottle age. With a 15% alcohol content, this wine is more intense on the palate compared to the bouquet. The effect is almost burly or

The sweet fruit returns on the aftertaste

The detailed and equally pure flavors are unusually forward with fine intensity and superb finishing length and minerality

Like the Lavaut

The mouthfeel

This borderline old school effort is sufficiently firmly structured to suggest that all of a decade will be necessary for it to arrive at its peak

It has a perfumed bouquet of bilberry and mulberry fruit

The fruit bestows purity

complex and vibrant flavors that culminate in an energetic

white peach and sea shore whiffs

fresh acidity

And a spicy

250 cases imported