2021 I Sodi di S. Niccolò

Auslieferung bis zum Sommer 2025!
Delivery until Summer 2025!

A wonderfully balanced vintage in Tuscany, and this wine, which is always one to follow, just slow burns into brilliance. What I mean by that is that there is a delicacy immediately evident, savoury broth and crushed rose petals on the opening, gentle woodsmoke and fragrant raspberry leaf and redcurrant fruits. Its tannins give a gentle caress. Alessandro Cellai winemaker, 66% new oak, 10 months in bottle after barrel ageing.
97/100 Jane Anson

(IGT Toscana; 85% Sangioveto – a special clone of Sangiovese with thinner skins; 15% Malvasia Nera – which softens the big tannins of the Sangiovese; aged in oak, 50% new, 50% first and second use for 24-30 months; 14% alcohol). The harvest finished here on October 20, almost three weeks later than in 2020 – and the extended hang-time really takes this to another level. Vibrantly red-fruited as is ever more evident when this is tasted in the context of a little vertical (where the other recent vintages are all darker in their fruit profile). The altitude here is crucial to the freshness and that, in turn, is what holds this wine together. Fuller and richer than the 2020; indeed, this is more voluminous than any previous recent vintage. Compact and quite powerful, dense and charged at the core. Full, but essentially soft. Chocolate and quite a distinct floral component – peonies and gladioli. There’s also a hint of medicinal herbs and a touch of TCP and iodine. In the mouth this is voluptuous. Supple, plush and with the highly tactile fine-grained spherical tannins providing considerable layering. This is quite sunny (solaire) in personality for I Sodi San Niccolo, with plenty of liquorice. On the finish there is something very ‘Sangiovese’ about the touch of the tannins that brings an additional sense of detail and pixilation. They seem also to collect in the lower layers accentuating the sense of depth. Very impressive for the vintage and quite serious, this is a wine that will need time to fully express itself aromatically. A Super Tuscan made in a way more Super by climate change.
96/100+ Colin Hay; The Drinks Business