2016 Poggio Lombrone

95/100

ColleMassari’s flagship 100% Sangiovese bottling is from Mt Amiata, overlooking Montalcino. Poggio Lombrone has not dissimilar weight to Montalcino’s Brunellos, but with a more tangy, playful juiciness. Its underlying depth has an airy quality as if the fruit were constructed with honeycomb-like layers. Smooth, memorable and enjoyable.

Vinous

94/100

The 2016 Sangiovese Riserva Poggio Lombrone is drop-dead gorgeous and totally classic with a bouquet that opens with crushed black cherries, cooling sweet herbal tones and dusty cedar spice box. Time in the glass brings further depths of plum, cranberries and underbrush. This is velvety and rich. It's harmonious, as ripe woodland berries cascade across a core of salty acids offset by a twang of sour citrus, with fine tannins slowly mounting toward the close. While youthfully structured and dry through the finale, there's still pleasure to be found in the rosy inner florals, iron-tinged mineral tones and savory spices that linger throughout. Poggio Lombrone is a single-vineyard selection of Sangiovese vines that are over fifty yeasr old. This spends eighteen motnhs in thirty-hectoliter oak casks prior to bottling. The 2016 really captures the magic of this excellent Tuscan vintage. Bury a few in the cellar, you won't regret it.

93/100

A very pleasant Sangiovese here with red and black berries and a hint of perfumed chalk. Hints of fresh mushrooms, too. Medium-bodied with lightly firm tannins and a tight, fresh finish. From organically grown grapes.

Vinum Wine Magazine

18/20

Single vineyard wine from 300 metres above sea level: restrained nose, then aromas of cherries, liquorice and violets; supple texture, robust, precise tannins, subtle minerality, the finish has notes of plums and Mediterranean spices.