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The 2020 Masseto has great impact on the palate. This is rich, unctuous and opulent but it is well contained and not at all over the top. The mouth-filling palate is bursting with fresh black fruits, beautifully complementing the dry spice, high-quality oak notes. It is more angular and extracted than the Massetino tasted alongside and the extraction has been pushed to the limit without losing freshness and fruit purity. The depth is also notably impressive. This needs time in bottle but will bring plenty of drinking pleasure for decades to come.
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James Suckling
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Altre recensioni e punteggi
The 2020 Masseto is superb. Bright and vibrant in the glass, the 2020 offers up an exciting mix of dark-toned fruit, mocha, spice, leather, tobacco, cedar and a kiss of French oak. Lively acids and Franc aromatics lend vibrancy throughout. The Franc is so evident today. This is exceptionally polished and sophisticated, albeit a touch slender relative to most years. In 2020, Masseto is more finesse than power.
The 2020 Masseto now sees new DNA with a touch of Cabernet Franc added to this celebrated Merlot-based icon wine. This is a vintage of enormous richness and density, and everything about the wine is taken up a notch or two (including the bottle glass weight and the 15% alcohol content). But Axel Heinz and his team are well prepared for the hot vintages like 2020, and changes to farming and canopy management ensure even ripening. This wine is always hard to analyze in its youth. It needs many more years to soften and flesh out. Give it time.
Intense aromas of ripe herbs, plums, green coffee beans, and hazelnuts. Turns to crushed berries and orange peel. Full-bodied with superb concentration and fine, velvety tannins that run the length of the wine. It's big but agile and gorgeous. Merlot. What a wine! Best after 2030.
Informazioni sul produttore
Fondato negli anni '80 da Lodovico Antinori su consiglio di André Tchelistcheff, il Masseto è stato uno dei primi vini Merlot in purezza della Toscana. Fratello di Ornellaia, il Super Tuscan è spesso considerato il Petrus d'Italia, offrendo vini potenti e profumati, molto ricercati dai collezionisti