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2020 Cepparello, Isole e Olena, Tuscany, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sangiovese
Not ready (Drink 2028 - 2058)
Antonio Galloni
97+/100
James Button
93/100
James Suckling
94/100
Walter Speller
17++/20
Monica Larner
96/100
Product: 20201100408

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2020 Cepparello, Isole e Olena, Tuscany, Italy

Description

Cepparello is widely considered one of the best value Super Tuscan wines you can still get your hands on. When it was first released in 1980, there were still very few 100% Sangiovese wines around. Isole e Olena proved right from the start, why it is considered one of the leading producers in the region.

This instantly transports you to the rolling hills of Tuscany – baked earth, blood orange, mint and dark berry fruit, all the things I want in Sangiovese. Lots of vanilla and spice as well, this will need a couple of years to fill it’s powerful frame. Paolo di Marchi has taken this historic Tuscan estate to ever loftier heights and this, his penultimate vintage, is a Cepparello of the highest order.

Drink 2025 - 2040+

Fergus Stewart, Private Client Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 15%
Maturity Not ready (2028 - 2058)
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer Isole e Olena

Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni 97+/100
The 2020 Cepparello is dense, powerful and soaring in intensity. A dark, almost somber Cepparello, the 2020 possesses remarkable depth from start to finish. Black cherry, plum, gravel, dried herbs and lavender build in a vivid, stunningly beautiful Cepparello that hits all the right notes.Drink 2028 - 2045antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (June 2023)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Jun 2023)
James Button 93/100
A long, hot summer with good day and nighttime temperature variations led to an even ripening. Balsamic and medicinal tones introduce a bright, chewy cherry palate with wood and spice notes. Earth and pomegranate touches emerge towards the finish, framed by ripe, grippy tannins and good acidity. Still very youthful, it will improve with age but seems to lack a little bit of the intensity seen in the 2019.Drink 2024 - 2052james_button, Decanter.com (January 2023)
Drink 2028 - 2045
James Button, Decanter.com (Jan 2023)
James Suckling 94/100
Attractive red and dark berries with dried flowers, nutmeg and cocoa powder. Dried orange peel and wet earth, too. Medium- to full-bodied, toned and steady with fine-grained tannins that are slightly chalky. Polished and even with a lingering finish. Try after 2026james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (May 2023)
Drink 2028 - 2045
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (May 2023)
Walter Speller 17++/20
Dark ruby. Enticing, lifted, rich cherry laced with the perfect dose of oak. Polished, full, concentrated and supple on the palate; suave and long, with finely ground tannins woven into the succulent fruit. Quite rich and full-bodied on the finish and clearly a very ambitious wine, but could do with a little more of Sangiovese’s bite. That may come with more age. Drink 2025 - 2034 Walter Speller, JancisRobinson.com (May 2023)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Walter Speller, JancisRobinson.com (May 2023)
Monica Larner 96/100
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.Drink 2024 - 2045monica_larner, Wine Advocate (May 2023)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Monica Larner, RobertParker.com (May 2023)

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