Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2017 vs Villa Maria Ngakirikiri 2018
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| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £71.00 | £71.00 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Tenuta San Leonardo | Villa Maria |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2017
"…one of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers separated in childhood." Wine Advocate, December 2014 "Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy" Jancis Robinson, August 2012 The wines are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and (says leading Italian critic Nicolas Belfrage) ‘can have an elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world‘. 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 and subsequently employed the same legendary consultant, Giacomo Tachis, as Sassicaia for a time. San Leonardo’s outstanding Bordeaux blend has received ‘Tre Bicchiere’ from Gambero Rosso for an extraordinary fourteen vintages consecutively and was also numbered among the Guide’s ‘Fifty Wines which changed Italy’. Latterly the critics have got on board with great write-ups from Jancis Robinson, The Wall Street Journal (to whom we introduced the estate) and the Wine Advocate giving recent vintages of San Leonardo 94-97 point scores. "One of my personal favourite Italian wines, unquestionably the top winery in the region and renowned as one of the most consistent – stylistically and qualitatively – in the whole of Italy, YET its wines remain extremely well-priced by comparison to more widely publicised names." Tom Harrow, Honest Grapes Wine Director
Villa Maria Ngakirikiri 2018
The Gimblett Gravels appellation is often touted as being one of the finest regions in the world for top quality Cabernet Sauvignon outside of Bordeaux, with a reputation for beautiful and thought-provoking wines. Leading the pack is undoubtedly Ngakirikiri, with eye-watering scores you would expect from very serious classed growths and an annual production to rival the most exclusive chateaux of Pomerol (only 230 cases were made in 2018!). .
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