Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2016 vs Tenuta Sette Ponti, Podere Orma Toscana 2020
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2016 currently starts £0.60 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £71.00 | £71.60 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Tenuta San Leonardo | Tenuta Sette Ponti |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc |
| Region | — | Toscana |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2016
After banging the drum for the Guerrieri Gonzaga family’s remarkable (and remarkably consistent) Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend for the last fifteen years, we relish each new endorsement and instance of critical appreciation and Jancis’ is the just the latest in a long line of articles from major critics. As a reminder... The wines of San Leonardo are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and (said the late and greatly respected Italian specialist Nicolas Belfrage) " can have an elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world ". Jancis clearly agrees, noting latterly the wine’s “ astoundingly consistent quality ” and how each vintage is “ beautifully low-key and like the most refined red bordeaux imaginable ”, determining it is " Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy ”. The Wine Advocate’s Monica Larner calls it “ … one of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers separated in childhood ” after James Suckling had previously made the comparison referring to San Leonardo as “ The Sassicaia of the North ”. The comparison is more than skin deep as San Leonardo’s owner Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, a rare example (at the time) of a professionally-trained aristocrat-oenologist, spent time at Tenuta San Guido back in the 1960s helping create Sassicaia with legendary consultant, Giacomo Tachis, whom he subsequently employed at his own estate. The estate has received the top ‘Tre Bicchiere’ rating from Gambero Rosso for an unprecedented seventeen vintages, and has twice been voted by aggregate Italy’s top wine release of the year (jointly with Sassicaia, to continue the comparison). Antonio Galloni weighs in saying “ The Guerrieri Gonzaga’s are one of the great families of Italian wine. Over the years, the Guerrieri Gonzaga’s have produced a number of stellar Bordeaux-influenced reds at San Leonardo, many of which I have had the privilege to taste. ” Meanwhile his collea
Tenuta Sette Ponti, Podere Orma Toscana 2020
Is it in Bolgheri that Antonio Moretti Cuseri has left his new footprint, or Orma in Italian? This is no simple word-play, but rather heralds a wine estate which he acquired in Bolgheri, in the province of Livorno, after searching for a wine-growing area of absolute quality. Bolgheri has long boasted an impressive reputation in the world of great wines, earning its prestige as one of the most impressive and creative production areas in the entire world of wines as a result of a number of forward-thinking producers and of the area’s experimentation with innovative blends of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. An unusual alchemy fuses together climate, soils, culture, and tradition to make Bolgheri an exceptional terroir for the production of powerful yet refined wines of unsurpassed quality.
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