Critic Scores:

• 96 – Jeni Port, Halliday Wine Companion
• 93 – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
• 93 – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

The 2024 vintage highlights the exceptional synergy between Mark Walpole and this classic Tuscan variety, benefiting from a cool, dry growing season that preserved vibrant aromatics and structural tension. Crafted from a diverse selection of clones—including a small percentage of the traditional Colorino grape—this wine was matured for ten months in large, seasoned Italian-coopered casks to emphasize its regional purity.

In the glass, it reveals a bright crimson hue with violet edges, leading into a complex bouquet of wild raspberries, sour cherry, and plum, accented by notes of cumin, fennel seed, and red earth.

The palate is exceptionally weighted, balancing a brisk "acid crunch" with savoury layers of Campari, dried herbs, and mineral earthiness, all carried by a frame of fine-grained, gravelly tannins.

Jeni Port of the Halliday Wine Companion identifies this as a standout follow-up to the 2023, remarking that the wine is "fairly bristling in cherry-fruited and aromatic brightness and crunch in youth, with an underlying brooding quality that says, 'just wait.'"