Isole e Olena Vin Santo del Chianti Classico DOC 375ml 2010

A$130.00

Availability
In stock
Volume
375ml
Region/Country
Tuscany, Italy
Rating
97 points

Vintages

2010

Description

The Chianti Classico wine region located in Tuscany, Italy, is known for producing premium quality wines. The Isole E Olena brand is no exception to this rule. It is a well-respected and reputed name in this region, which makes wines from grapes grown in independent vineyards around this region. The De Marchi family established this wine label in the 1950s by combining the estates of Isole and Olena. Ever since there has been no looking back for the brand.

If you are wondering why Vinsanto is considered as one of the best dessert wines in Italy, it is because the grapes are cultivated, harvested and vinified with a lot of care and passion. After the grapes are allowed to wither into raisins and carefully pressed, they again undergo barrel fermentation and ageing process of up to 4 years before they are bottled!

Ratings

Score
97 points
Reviewer
The Wine Advocate
Review

This wine is a labor of love made only by the most tenacious and passionate producers in Tuscany. The Isole e Olena 2010 Vin Santo del Chianti Classico (in a 375-milliliter bottle) is beautifully balanced and offers a rush of candied fruit aromas and honey with hints of the smoky elegance that comes with time. On top of apricot, brown sugar and maple syrup, this Vin Santo offers unique complexity with aniseed, beeswax and toasted cardamom pod. The mouthfeel is equally finessed with a soft texture and, surprise, a wonderful dose of freshness. That acidity is the wine's ace card. This is one of the best Vin Santos I have tasted.

Score
96 points
Reviewer
Vinous
Review

Rich, deep and exotically beautiful, the 2010 has so much to offer.

Ten years in small casks yielded a Vin Santo loaded with personality, complexity and character. Orange confit, burnt sugar, dried herbs, spice and caramel are some of the many notes that lift out of the glass. A touch of Petit Manseng (unusual in Vin Santo) helps brighten the acids. If I had to pick only one bottle to demonstrate what Vin Santo is all about, it might very well be Isole e Olena, as it is a real reference-point of both excellence and pedigree.

Specifications

Closure
Cork
Serving Temp.
10-12 °C
Cellar until
Now - 2035
Food pairing
Blue cheese (especially Gorgonzola) · High quality dark chocolate bars · Nut-based tarts such as walnut tart

Tasting Profile

Nose
A brilliant dessert wine, in fact, one of the best. Mid-deep amber with orange glints. Rich, fudgy, walnut marzipan aromatics, with dried, mixed citrus peel, cooked apricots and layers of Christmas cake spices.
Palate
Fully sweet and rich, with cooked apricot and citrus that quickly gives way to Christmas spice, dark chocolate and some polished wood. Brisk acidity just about copes with the sweetness on the front palate, to allow the long, walnut finish to carry through.

Isole e Olena Vin Santo del Chianti Classico DOC 375ml 2010

Isole e Olena Vin Santo del Chianti Classico DOC 375ml 2010
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