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Tired of Super-Tuscan Inflation? Taste This.
The Super Tuscan landscape was once teeming with steals. Now, the top bottles have hit the big time, price-wise: Ornellaia and Sassicaia go for $250+, Solaia’s pushing $400, and Masseto’s on another planet, with the iconic Merlot commanding over $900.
It’s enough to make collectors wonder where to look.
We’d point the savviest of them straight to the 97-point 2020 Tenuta Sette Ponti Oreno Toscana.
This is one of the great under-the-radar bottles made in Tuscany. The flagship bottling from the Tenuta Sette Ponti estate in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone, it’s a powerful, dense, and seductive Bordeaux-style blend that boasts the same lofty score adorning the 2020 Sassicaia and 2019 Ornellaia.
Tenuta Sette Ponti is an 1,800-acre estate named for the seven bridges across the Arno River in between Arezzo and Florence. The vineyards’ terroir of clay, sand, and crumbly galestro has exactly the right balance of drainage and water retention, and every May, workers prune the vines so only one or two grape clusters remain on each cane, ensuring even earlier ripening and higher concentration.
That concentration is on full display in this beautiful 2020, thanks to the warm conditions of the vintage. The wine is powerful, dense, and seductive, with a pack of dark-fruited aromas accompanied by hints of violet, wild mint, and licorice, all wrapped in a layer of tobacco. The mouthfeel is rich and dense, with black-cherry preserves, spices, firm tannins, and balanced acidity.
Composed of 50% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Petit Verdot, matured for 18 months in new French oak, it’s a supple delight that will be fascinating to watch evolve through the end of the decade.