Viticcio’s 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva is a fantastic recommendation for Italian wine lovers. It has the dry and savory heart of Chianti’s Sangiovese-driven wines coupled with the richness, softer textures and baking spice notes that many people love in modern Tuscan reds. It’s so good that Wine Spectator named it as their #14 Top Wine of 2025, with a score of 95 points. This is a fantastic wine that we’re offering for $24.95!
Located in the idyllic heartland of the historic Chianti hills, the Viticcio (vee-TEECHO-oh) estate has been steadily expanding and improving over the past 55 years into a lovely agritourism spot, a model of modern rusticity - in fact, that's a good way to describe their 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva! It has the magic combination of intensity, depth and balanced mouthfeel that marks this stand-out vintage.
There’s plenty of ripe plum, black cherry, and blackberry with cured tobacco, peppercorn, cedarwood and oak-spice (like nutmeg and vanilla pod). That packed fruit character surrounds a dark, earthy-mineral core, but opens with time into a bright, juicy, supple, and warming mid-palate supported by an appetizing texture that’s ripely fleshy. It firms up on the finish, with a dusting of lightly grippy tannins and flavors like dried cherry skins, and those spices again including a hint of anise. It's a wine that gradually opens in glass to reveal all of its character, and an ideal food partner for full-flavored, savory dishes like thick Florentine-style steak (a rare porterhouse would do) or pappardelle with a rich ragú (especially wild boar). Aged in small French oak barrels for a year, followed by a year in large Slavonian vats. Practices organic farming. 90% Sangiovese, 5% Merlot, 5% Syrah.
PRACTICES ORGANIC FARMING
#14 ON WINE SPECTATOR'S TOP 100 OF 2025
WINE SPECTATOR 95 POINTS - "Aromas of violet and wild herbs give way to flavors of black cherry, blackberry and black currant in this tense, saturated red, which is just beginning to relax and open up now, six years after the harvest. Shows terrific balance, with a long, black pepper–infused aftertaste. Drink now through 2045." -BS
90% Sangiovese, 5% Merlot, & 5% Syrah
Located in the idyllic heartland of the historic Chianti hills, the Viticcio (vee-TEECHO-oh) estate has been steadily expanding and improving over the past 55 years into a lovely agritourism spot, a model of modern rusticity - in fact, that's a good way to describe their 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva! It has the magic combination of intensity, depth and balanced mouthfeel that marks this stand-out vintage.
There’s plenty of ripe plum, black cherry, and blackberry with cured tobacco, peppercorn, cedarwood and oak-spice (like nutmeg and vanilla pod). That packed fruit character surrounds a dark, earthy-mineral core, but opens with time into a bright, juicy, supple, and warming mid-palate supported by an appetizing texture that’s ripely fleshy. It firms up on the finish, with a dusting of lightly grippy tannins and flavors like dried cherry skins, and those spices again including a hint of anise. It's a wine that gradually opens in glass to reveal all of its character, and an ideal food partner for full-flavored, savory dishes like thick Florentine-style steak (a rare porterhouse would do) or pappardelle with a rich ragú (especially wild boar). Aged in small French oak barrels for a year, followed by a year in large Slavonian vats. Practices organic farming. 90% Sangiovese, 5% Merlot, 5% Syrah.
PRACTICES ORGANIC FARMING
#14 ON WINE SPECTATOR'S TOP 100 OF 2025
WINE SPECTATOR 95 POINTS - "Aromas of violet and wild herbs give way to flavors of black cherry, blackberry and black currant in this tense, saturated red, which is just beginning to relax and open up now, six years after the harvest. Shows terrific balance, with a long, black pepper–infused aftertaste. Drink now through 2045." -BS
90% Sangiovese, 5% Merlot, & 5% Syrah
