Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai Vineyards

Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai VineyardsA much more serious proposition than the regular Chianti. It is made out of the best grapes from low yielding, stony vineyards planted in the 1970s; the fruit is dark and dense, the tannins fine and chocolatey. It has balance and energy, and a little new wood adds to the complex spice notes on the very long finish.

Give it good decant before drinking

damsons and cloves on the nose

expect lovely citrus notes

The palate is rich and clean baked apple soft oak and ripe peach

This is a wine with intense notes of violets

Alain Graillot is best known in the Northern Rhone for his excellent Crozes-Hermitage wines

Medium-to full-bodied

Entwined within a complex deep core of red and purple fruit aromas

It is peachy

In the glass

Such a lovely savoury nose full of whole bunches of small red berry fruit

and some bottle aging will definitely bring up more layers and texture