Cantina Tollo Cagiolo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2005

...2005 and wines for this coveted title. Well, coveted-. There's no denying this is a fabulous wine, I tasted it and it's excellent, great structure, fruit and length but the best single varietal wine in Italy, against the 2004 it...

was very well represented but these wines are sent via the producers themselves. No , No , No Rita, No , No , really, very few big Italian names bothered to pay their £80 and send their wines into the judges. However, of 1000 Italian wines this was the best of the bunch and 1000 wines is no small sample! Try telling that to the folks of Burgundy and who watched a walk away with best...over £10!

from my favourite recent vintage. It's also a...I don't talk much about The Cellar Door on this blog, mainly because wine writers in general always face assaults over their bias. Whether that is palate bias, monetary bias or regional bias but in cases where I feel the people who read the blog will benefit I will mention The Cellar Door. We recently added this wine and are selling it much cheaper than you can find in the UK for £15, about 20% less than standard retailers and if you've never tried a , which most people have not, this is the one to buy. We're knocking it down, when really we should be marking it up, to get our customers to try this wine. OK chat over!

best regional grapes. Italian wine has come on leaps and bounds in the last 5 years and pretty much all 20 counties are now producing world class wine. Decanter recommends you try , ,..., Nero and...as I've been banging on about for the past 12 months, so if you don't trust this 28 year old British wino then maybe you'll trust the Wine Masters! After all, and I quote one of the esteemed Wine Masters..."Don't underestimate just how good and are becoming". Ouch! Well, we all make mistakes eh! Thank god for...

...2005 - - €18 noses I've witnessed all year. The oak is detectable but very pleasant with notes of blackberries and chocolate. On the palate the wine is full bodied, perfectly balanced, ingrained and rounded tannins with fruit holding in the mid palate and a long finish...Perfection. 93 Points

has got better, in the last 5 its gone from an "also grape" to probably the hottest grape in Italy. Continually I am at the quality and fair prices of these wines and from about 10-12 different producers I've had this year only one failed to impress me. I see this wine becoming a more serious option over the next few years and prices going up, also capable of some aging this wine is a case buy.

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