by Elisa Cavazza

We are pleased to share with you the review written by the well-known wine critic Jancis Robinson.

A Master of Wine, she provided advice for the wine cellar of Queen Elizabeth II and is the Financial Times’ wine columnist.

Jancis has tasted and analyzed the attributes of the wines we produce in the Colli Berici and has kindly sent us her summary.

We hope you enjoy reading it.

Much lighter in colour than the other Colli Berici Cabernets I’ve tasted. Much
more elegant, as well! This really has beautiful balance. Juicy but beautifully restrained strawberries saturate the cinnamon-scented tannins. The fruit has a silky sumptuousness with along, firm thumb-press off presence and weight and yet it’s almost aérien. Like their Tia Rossas, this is head and shoulders above its peers. The Cavazza family really get elegance and refinement as well as the beauty of understated, pure expression of fruit and site. Bravo!

Notably more savoury than the other Colli Berici Merlots tasted
alongside. And, just like al the other Cavazza wines, marked by its finesse: driftwood-in-cashmere tannins, soaring flute-and violin red-berried fruit. A wine with diaphanous richness but it’s not sweet. Everything has come together, à point.
It’s not easy to do with Merlot, and lift my hat to the Cavazza family, this showcases real integrity and careful, light-touch work in the vineyard and in the cellar.

Transparent ruby red with a beautiful nose of dark red roses and rosehips and
poached plums. A remarkable wine of remarkable purity and elegance despite intensity and complexity If ever a liquid resembled an Armenian, handmade silk carpet, it’s this.’The fine threads of spice weave effortlessly and intricately
in with equally fine threads of silvery acidity and golden tannins, and through the glossy fabric of fruit. Raspberries and damask roses. Outstanding.

Very bright, see-through clarete colour. Fresh raspberries and crushed mint. Slip-slim tannins, lithe and light-bodied. A teeny bit musky in the prettiest way. But more than anything else, this is a glass of fresh, in-season, open-air-grown raspberries. Delightful!

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