This illustrates one trend in California, toward making riper, sweeter, softer and oakier Sangioveses, more akin to St.-Julien than Chianti. In the process, it loses the varietal's delicacy, but there's no denying this is a sumptuous, delicious, complex red dinner wine, like a light but fine claret.
This illustrates one trend in California, toward making riper, sweeter, softer and oakier Sangioveses, more akin to St.-Julien than Chianti. In the process, it loses the varietal's delicacy, but there's no denying this is a sumptuous, delicious, complex red dinner wine, like a light but fine claret.
This illustrates one trend in California, toward making riper, sweeter, softer and oakier Sangioveses, more akin to St.-Julien than Chianti. In the process, it loses the varietal's delicacy, but there's no denying this is a sumptuous, delicious, complex red dinner wine, like a light but fine claret.