2021 Podere Le Boncie Chiesamonti Rosso di Toscana

Vinous/Antonio Galloni 95 – “The 2021 Chiesamonti is a potent, full-bodied wine that is going to need time to unwind. Herbs, wildflowers, spice, leather and menthol build in this backward, potent red from Le Boncie. There’s plenty of stuffing and textural intensity in this deep, resonant wine. I can’t wait to see how it ages. Giovanna Morganti and Giorgio Serao turned out a stellar set of wines that will go down as some of their finest ever. The small, intimate scale here is decidedly artisan, very much like similar estates in Burgundy, Piedmont and other regions. “We follow a practical approach to organic viticulture that attempts to be adaptive to a world that is constantly changing, an approach that is more about asking questions than following rigid protocols,” Morganti and Serao explained as we walked through the vineyards on the eve of the 2023 harvest. The influences – Gianfranco Soldera and Beppe Rinaldi among them – are evident. Readers who want to explore Sangiovese at its finest must put Le Boncie at the top of their lists.”