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• Score: 94 Vintage 2019 Vinous Media The 2019 Rosso Villa Gresti di San Leonardo is youthfully understated in the glass, with sage, rosemary and crushed wild blueberry aromas. This is silky and potent, with masses of dark red fruits and savory herbs cascading across its stern mineral core. It finishes dramatically long and savory with peppery inner florals and salted licorice hints that linger. The 2019 is a powerful and balanced Villa Gresti that will take some time to show its best. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2019 James Suckling Stemmy and peppery nose with ripe stems, sauerkraut and naturally fresh black and blue fruit. Succulent and medium-bodied on the palate with electric acidity and a long, sappy finish. Drink now. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 91 Vintage 2019 Wine Enthusiast Merlot is never happier than when it comes from the mountains. Grown between 450 and 600 meters, this 90% Merlot with 10% Carmenère shows vibrant and lifted aromas of ripe plums, violets, white pepper, clove and star anise. Energetic on the palate with polished tannins, generous dark-fruit flavors combined with well-integrated and balanced oak use. Drink now–2030. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2019 Wine Spectator A fresh, medium-bodied red that layers light, fine tannins and a dark, minerally underpinning with baked black plum and cassis fruit, bay leaf and dill notes, spice and leather accents. Merlot and Carmenère. Drink now through 2028. 700 cases made, 120 cases imported. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2018 Vinous Media Darkly floral and brooding in the glass, the 2018 Rosso Villa Gresti di San Leonardo grumbles up with musky black currants and smokey grilled herbs. This is soft-textured, round and savory in style with depths of mineral-inflected dark red fruits. It finishes fresh and potent with only a subtle tug of fine tannin. Violet inner florals and citrus hints slowly fade. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2017 James Suckling So vibrant for its age, this has so many herbal aromas it’s almost got a herb-liqueur nose! Very cool and elegant, in the way good old Bordeaux is, but with youthful vitality, and it has a core of blackberry and ripe elderberry. Self-confidently dry finish. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2017 Vinous Media The 2017 Rosso Villa Gresti di San Leonardo wafts up with a woodsy character, blending crushed violets, balsam and lavender with wild berries and crushed chalk. Its textures are like pure silk, ushering in a dense wave of ripe red and blue fruits offset by brisk acidity as savory herbal tones form toward the close. This leaves wild blueberries and citrus hints lingering while finishing only lightly structured and surprisingly fresh. The Villa Gresti is a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Carménère. Of note is that production was drastically reduced by over 50% due to the warm and dry conditions of the vintage. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2016 Vinous Media The 2016 Rosso Villa Gresti di San Leonardo captivates with a dusting of crushed chalk and dried violets before blossoming with black berries and hints of tomato leaf. This is silky and cool-toned, with a core of brisk acids that enliven the tart wild red and blue berries within. It leaves a coating of fine tannins, along with a touch of stimulating sour citrus, while tapering off incredibly long and spicy. The balance here is amazing and will impart the 2016 with a long and fruitful life. The Villa Gresti di San Leonardo is a blend of Merlot with a dollop of Carmenère from an old vineyard located around Villa Gresti. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2016 James Suckling Lots of mushrooms, but not much fruit on the nose. However, on the palate this is quite a ripe wine with plenty of blackcurrant and some red bell pepper. Then the generous, fine tannins come through and build to a crescendo. Crisp finish with plenty of earthy complexity. Drinkable now, but better from 2023. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2015 Vinous Media The 2015 Villa Gresti di San Leonardo is a blend of Merlot with a dollop of Carmenère from an old vineyard located around Villa Gresti. It opens up with breathtaking aromatics, showing dusty black cherry and wild blueberry with a peppery, herbal infusion, as notes of moist dark soil and roses form. There’s a stimulating mixture of acids and salty minerals that offsets its silky textures in a red-fruited display that is more savory than sweet. Tannins build but never get in the way, finishing lifted and refined, with notes of blueberry skins and herbs. Wow. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2015 James Suckling A very subtle, enticing red that shows dried blackcurrants, dried cedar, walnuts and tobacco. Finely spiced and structured with firm tannins and driven acidity. Drink from 2021. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2014 James Suckling Dried cumin, tobacco, cedar, walnuts and hazelnuts punctuate the glazed blackcurrants and blackberries also on offer. Full-bodied and fleshy on the palate with plenty of generosity and density yet marvelous structure and panache. Drink from 2022. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 91 Vintage 2014 Wine Advocate The Tenuta San Leonardo 2014 Villa Gresti marries Merlot and Carmenère in a wine that shows a mid-weight texture, bright freshness and accessible fruit. Villa Gresti occupies the mid-upper range in the estate portfolio. From a cool and humid vintage, it shows some greenness with subtle tones of olive or mountain herb at the back of sour cherry and plum. There is no mistaking the cool-climate, alpine personality of this tart red wine. Now, seven years from the harvest, it feels much younger than it really is. I might suggest more aging time to soften it out. Production is 15,000 bottles. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2014 Wine Spectator An elegant red, fresh and medium- to full-bodied, with sculpted tannins and a concentrated range of cassis, dusty sage, loamy mineral and graphite notes that linger on the finish. Merlot and Carmenère. Drink now through 2024. 1,250 cases made. –AN Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 89 Vintage 2014 Vinous Media Deep red-ruby. Pungently floral nuances complement red cherry and a hint of cassis on the nose. Minerals, medicinal herbs and earth tones are complicated by candied violet and cocoa. Finishes clean and pretty. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2011 Vinous Media Deep red-ruby. Aromas and flavors of red cherry, cedar, black tea, coffee and potpourri. Juicy and precise on the palate, offering gently sweet red fruit flavors that take a darker turn with air. The polished rising tannins build slowly, nicely framing the long, fresh, juicy and subtly flinty finish. Shelf Talker Full Page Review