The 2010 Lupicaia is another fruit-forward vintage, showing great intensity and depth. What makes this wine unique is its streamlined and focused nature. Overall, it is a ripe, generous and very intense wine with rich flavors and concentration. The integrated tannins are dusty and fine. It would pair well with rich and gamey meats like liver, innards or venison.
Drinking Window: 2019 - 2030
Reviewer Name: Monica Larner
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Aromas of asphalt, meat and dark fruits follow through to a full body with firm, chewy tannins and a long, flavorful finish. Needs a year or two still to soften but already shows lots of character and polish. Mostly cabernet sauvignon with some merlot and petit verdot. Try in 2017.
Drinking Window: 0000 - 0000
Reviewer Name: James Suckling
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This really explodes with ripe fruit such as dried strawberries and cranberries as well as leather and tobacco. Full body with lots of round tannins but fresh acidity and a long, remarkably savory finish. Drink now or hold.
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Reviewer Name: James Suckling
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What a pleasure it is to taste the 2010 Lupicaia. Fresh and brilliant on the palate, the 2010 boasts superb energy and precision throughout. Rose petal, mint and succulent red-fleshed fruit are all beautifully delineated. The flavors remain quite youthful and vibrant, with little in the way of aromatic nuance. Readers will have to be patient, but there is little doubt the 2010 is a stellar wine with considerable potential. With time in the glass, the 2010 becomes richer, darker and more powerful, hinting at what lies ahead.
Drinking Window: 2017 - 2030
Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
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Lupicaia is fresh and brilliant on the palate, the 2010 boasts superb energy and precision throughout. Rose petal, mint and succulent red-fleshed fruit are all beautifully delineated. The flavors remain quite youthful and vibrant, with little in the way of aromatic nuance. There is little doubt the 2010 is a stellar wine with considerable potential. With time in the glass, the 2010 becomes richer, darker and more powerful, hinting at what lies ahead. Big wine with notes of crushed black cherry, blackberry and spice aromas precede plush blackcurrant, dark chocolate and minty-laced fruit with mineral and sculpting acidity tannins are big, round and soft before an long finish.
Castello del Terriccio, situato a Castellina Marittima in provincia di Pisa, ha una storia millenaria ma viene acquistato dai Conti Serafini Ferri, famiglia di appartenenza dell’attuale proprietario, solo nel primo dopoguerra.Fino agli anni settanta la tenuta era conosciuta prevalentemente per l’attività cerealicola ma nel tempo è stata superata in notorietà ed importanza dalla coltivazione di vigneti destinati alla produzione di vini pregiati. Dai 25 ettari vitati del 1980 si è passati infatti agli attuali 60.
Castello del Terriccio, situato a Castellina Marittima in provincia di Pisa, ha una storia millenaria ma viene acquistato dai Conti Serafini Ferri, famiglia di appartenenza dell’attuale proprietario, solo nel primo dopoguerra.Fino agli anni settanta la tenuta era conosciuta prevalentemente per l’attività cerealicola ma nel tempo è stata superata in notorietà ed importanza dalla coltivazione di vigneti destinati alla produzione di vini pregiati. Dai 25 ettari vitati del 1980 si è passati infatti agli attuali 60.
The rolling hills of Tuscany are alive with endless rows of vines. In fact, wine is produced over most of the territory in this region of central Italy. The passion, gusto, and delightful flavours of the wine is directly related to the heart and soul of this beautiful land full of myths and legends. However, it's history much more interesting.
The wine of Tuscany is cultivated with great passion in Chianti, the hills around Montalcino, the vineyards of San Gimignano and the Lucchesia. Vines grown in the Livorno Hills and the Maremma near the coast carry strong sea notes. Those in the Sienese countryside taste of the warmth of the sun combined with the richness of the soil.
Giacomo Tachis, Italian wine expert, and creator of the Sassicaia wine describes the Tuscan vineyards with passion. “Here there is light, the sun. Radiant sunlight and the right soil are the soul of wine. But the tradition of the countryside and the memory of men are the solid basis of the extraordinary Tuscan wine culture.”
From antiquity, the fruit of the vine has been highly esteemed. Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian king, was certain that the secret of immortality could be found in the grapevine. It was during this time that the vines of Tuscany were planted along the sea in Maremma and the coastal regions south of Livorno. It was here that the cradle of Tuscan wines began.
The Sangiovese grapevine emerged in the Sienese hills during the early 1700’s. This was to be the first step leading to Chianti, the historic area of central Tuscany known for its great red wines. It is a triangle of land that lies between Greve, Radda, Castellina, and Gaiole. Chianti wine became so important to the Sienese economy and Florentine region that by 1903 an association was formed to protect its quality. In 1931, the boundaries of Chianti vineyards were established.
Historian Zeffiro Ciuffoletti sums up the development of Tuscan wine perfectly. “Tuscany, as regards wines, has no equal the world over, thanks to a most felicitous nature, and to a civilization of the grapevine and of wine that has been decanted and refined over the centuries.”