Isole e Olena Cepparello 2020: soaring, sought-after Super Tuscan red from one of Italy’s great estates: a superb vintage, acclaimed by the critics: 96/100 from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and James Suckling MW and more: case of six bottles delivered
Original price was: £654.00.£573.00Current price is: £573.00.
97/100 Falstaff
97/100 Antonio Galloni
96/100 Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
96/100 James Suckling MW
17++/20 Jancis Robinson MW
Isole e Olena is one of the great estates of Tuscany, and the highly sought-after ‘Super Tuscan’ Cepparello 2020 vintage is superb. With great elegance, fragrance and balance, it is highly acclaimed by the critics, scoring 96/100 from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and 97/100 from James Suckling MW, amid a host of other plaudits. This is a wine to savour, to lay down, and to give to a connoisseur—including yourself!
Vinous, Antonio Galloni awarding 97+/100: ‘The 2020 Cepparello is dense, powerful and soaring in intensity. A dark, almost somber Cepparello, the 2020 possesses remarkable depth from start to finish. Black cherry, plum, gravel, dried herbs and lavender build in a vivid, stunningly beautiful Cepparello that hits all the right notes.’
Wine Advocate 96/100: ‘Supple and smooth, the 2020 Cepparello brings Sangiovese to soaring heights in a manner only Paolo De Marchi can manage. This is his second to last vintage before he would retire and sell this historic estate. The wine opens to medium to full-bodied concentration with dark plum and redcurrant. Those cede to sweet spice, earth, crushed stone, rusty nail and candied orange peel. Give the wine more time to flesh out with cellar age. It registers a powerful 15% alcohol content.’
Wine Spectator 96/100: ‘Expressive and sumptuous from the get-go, this red features cherry, strawberry, rose, orange peel, mineral and Tuscan herb aromas and flavors. Sangiovese. Best from 2025 through 2045.’
Fergus Stewart, Private Client Manager at Berry Bros. & Rudd writes: ‘Cepparello is widely considered one of the best value Super Tuscan wines you can still get your hands on. When it was first released in 1980, there were still very few 100% Sangiovese wines around. Isole e Olena proved right from the start, why it is considered one of the leading producers in the region. This instantly transports you to the rolling hills of Tuscany—baked earth, blood orange, mint and dark berry fruit, all the things I want in Sangiovese. Lots of vanilla and spice as well, this will need a couple of years to fill it’s powerful frame. Paolo di Marchi has taken this historic Tuscan estate to ever loftier heights and this, his penultimate vintage, is a Cepparello of the highest order. Drink 2025 – 2040+.’
The grapes for Cepparello come from the best sites on the estates. Situated 400 metres above sea level, facing south-west, soils are primarily galestro, a schistous clay. The name Cepparello is taken from an old stream, Borro Cepparello, originating in the highest point of the vineyards on the Isole e Olena estate.
100% Sangiovese. Case of six bottles. Non Members £654. CCUK £573 inc VAT, duty and courier delivery (UK mainland).
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Isole e Olena: one of Italy’s great estates:
Isole e Olena is one of the great estates of Tuscany, in the stewardship of visionary Paolo De Marchi for almost half a century until it was recently taken under the same ownership as fabled Montalcino producer Biondi-Santi.
Nestling in a wooded valley between the twin hamlets of Isole and Olena, in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone of Tuscany, Isole e Olena occupies one of Tuscany’s most beautiful locations. The two estates of Isole and Olena were unified in the 1950s when they were bought by the de Marchi family from Piedmont. They’re two historic wine producing communes, with records for Olena reaching back into the 12th century.
Paolo de Marchi took the helm in 1976, and swiftly established it as one of the most dynamic and exciting estates in all of Italy: an epithet that still holds true today. This is his penultimate vintage.
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