Capezzana Villa di Capezzana Carmignano 10 Years 2015
£50.25
The wine
A rare library release, this ten-year-aged Villa di Capezzana Carmignano shows how gracefully the estate's flagship matures. Sangiovese with a touch of Cabernet, from one of Tuscany's oldest wine estates.
Evolved and complex, it offers dried cherry, leather, tobacco and sweet spice over a silky, resolved palate, finishing long and savoury. A wine of real depth and history, ready to drink now.
Decant and serve with roast beef, game, lamb and mature cheese.
The producer
Capezzana
View all Capezzana winesOn the hills of Carmignano, west of Florence, Capezzana is one of Italy's oldest and most storied wine estates, with a documented winemaking history stretching back over a thousand years. For generations it has been the home of the Contini Bonacossi family, custodians of one of Tuscany's most distinctive traditions. Few estates carry their history so lightly, or so well.
Here, uniquely, Sangiovese has long been partnered with Cabernet, a marriage the Medici first encouraged centuries ago. The result is Carmignano, a red of elegance and structure all its own, alongside a Bordeaux-inspired super-Tuscan and a characterful, textural Trebbiano.
Historic, graceful and beautifully made, these are wines of real depth and pedigree. They reward patience in the cellar and generosity at the table in equal measure.
Decant the reds and serve at cool room temperature, and taste a thousand years of Tuscan history in every glass.
