Chianti Classico "Riserva", Castello di Volpaia, Tuscany, IT, 2021

Professional Ratings

• 95 Wine Spectator
  This expressive red features cherry, blackberry, pomegranate and orange peel aromas and flavors. Mineral and wild herb accents add depth as this cruises to the long finish, offering terrific balance and length. Though impressive now, this should evolve nicely. Best from 2026 through 2042.
• 94 Jeb Dunnuck

  The 2021 Chianti Classico Riserva is entirely Sangiovese from Radda and was raised for two years in oak casks. It opens to a polished yet pure profile with aromas of lavender, grenadine, sweet sage, and fresh leather. It offers fantastic tension and energy on the palate, with coiled acidity, compact tannins, and a supple ripeness of fruit to round it out beautifully, with a salty finish.

• 93 James Suckling
  A textured, driven and flavorful riserva with aromas of dark cherries, wild currants, dried herbs and some stones. It’s medium-bodied with fine, firm tannins. Focused and precise, with a velvety core of succulent cherries at the center and a solid and harmonious frame of tannins. Lively and flavorful finish with excellent length. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  In the bottle with the black label, the Volpaia 2021 Chianti Classico Riserva Castello di Volpaia (made with certified organic fruit) shows impeccable balance with fresh acidity and lots of bright primary fruit, cherry and blackcurrant. The tannins are powdery and give enough structure to cement a pleasant sense of firmness. In all, the wine is very true to Sangiovese.
• 91 Wine Enthusiast
  Aromas of sweet cherries and vanilla come first, followed by savory, umami notes of damp earth, underbrush, balsamic, herbs and a crack of pepper. The palate brings dark, ripe berries and more earth, and that pepper really starts to show as it's punched up by acid and heat, but a blanket of smooth tannins keeps things in check.