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2020 Isole e Olena "Cepparello" Toscana

2020 Isole e Olena "Cepparello" Toscana

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Vinous

Reviewed June 2024
The 2020 Cepparello is a total stunner, just as it was last year. Deeply colored, layered and explosive in the glass, the 2020 possesses striking textural richness and overall intensity. Black cherry, graphite, plum, spice and lavender flesh out effortlessly. There's tremendous pedigree and sheer stature here. Cepparello is surely one of the wines of the year. (AG)

Professional Reviews

96

James Suckling

Review Date: 03/2025
Smoky and austere wine with a restrained nose of dark cherries allied to assertive bergamot and slightly chocolatey depth. Full-bodied with a smooth attack, then dense and velvety with a vibrant and energetic palate. Juicy and toasty in the aftertaste. Drink or hold. (AF)

96

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 05/2023
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. (ML)

96

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 10/2023
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. *Collectible* (BS)

Notes

Cepparello began in 1980 as Isole e Olena’s selection of its most promising Sangiovese. Bottled as Toscana IGT and made entirely from that grape, it established a separate path within the estate’s range. The name has since become closely associated with the property’s patient work of selecting fruit and refining its interpretation of Sangiovese. The estate describes 2020 as a season that began with a mild, dry winter, followed by a sharp temperature drop in March that required care against frost. Summer remained dry and relatively mild before rain arrived late in August. More settled September weather followed, and harvesting began around the middle of the month.

Details

TypeRed Wine
VarietalSangiovese
OriginSuper Tuscan, Tuscany, Italy
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU2028781
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