CRITIC REVIEWS
Monica Larner
This wine brought to mind precise imagery of tailcoats, striped dress pants, wingtip collar shirts and other gentlemens fashion choices from the Roaring Twenties. Sporting a retro but classic personality, the Marchesi Antinori 2018 Tignanello is quite the dapper and jovial wine that hits the market just as much of the world is emerging from a dark chapter of lockdowns and coronavirus curfews. I love the optimism that springs bright with such clarity and detail from within this blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. The 2016 vintage was a benchmark for sure, but I prefer the 2018, thanks to that tinge of nostalgia or emotion that is so deftly rendered in this cool, long growing season.
Aldo Fiordelli
Today producing 300,000 bottles annually, Tignanello was refined and refined through the years: blended with Cabernet Sauvignon since 1975, aged using less obvious oak management since 2000, handled in a more gentle way since 2010 using conical oak vessels... The classic 2018 vintage enhances, if possible, its restrained style. Tignanello is almost never fruity and this vintage shines for clove and black pepper aromas with blueberry yoghurt. Full, firm and velvety with great mid-palate weight and extraction, it shows long acidity which carries the exotic finish of spice and cocoa. A classic with a long life ahead.