Country: Italy

Region: Tuscany

Vintage: 2019

Cépage: Merlot (50%); Cabernet Sauvignon (40%); Petit Verdot (10%)

Size: 750 ml

Rating(s): 95+ (RP); 99 (JS)

" The Tenuta Sette Ponti 2019 Oreno celebrates the wine's 20th anniversary (1999-2019) with a special label and a heavy glass bottle. This blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot is beautifully ripe and generous with impeccable fruit throughout. Its primary intensity is delivered with energy and character, showcasing broad brush aromas of black fruit, exotic spice, cured tobacco and new leather. The tannins are quite strong in this edition and do make for a brief moment of astringency on the close. This is a thickly extracted blended Tuscan red, and it makes sense that its fiber and structure is also more compact and concentrated in 2019."

Monica Larner (RP) - 06/22