Il Borro - Toscana 2020 (750ml)
A full-bodied, elegant wine that perfectly combines elegance with style. Dark red with purple glints. Intense, with notes of undergrowth that lead way to warm spieces and tertiary aromas of cocoa and sweet tobacco. The well-honed, soft tannins leave a long, dry and velvety finish in the mouth.
50% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Syrah
Il Borro Description
Il Borro is our flagship wine, the one that best embodies our values and our vision. After an accurate geological study Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah have been planted in the best suited soils to express all their potential, giving birth to a velvety and opulent blend.
James Suckling: 96 Points
This is a round and rather juicy young wine with blackberry, chocolate and grilled meat notes. Full and layered with very fine tannins that are well integrated and a bright finish. Lively at the end. A blend of 35% cabernet sauvignon, 50% merlot and 15% syrah. 50% aged in 20-hectoliter casks. From organically grown grapes.
Wine Enthusiast: 95 Points
Intensely savory at first, with topsoil, graphite, leather, then fresh and floral with crushed sage and lavender, before wild cherry and wild strawberry emerge. Black cherry notes are generous and bright on the palate but with deep, brooding earth tones as a contrast. Tannins are refined but with tensile strength, like good armor, and a warm but bracing salinity carries through a long finish.
Vinous: 94 Points
An enticing whiff of tobacco, incense and mint gives way to dried black cherries and shavings of dark chocolate as the 2020 Il Borro slowly blossoms in the glass. This flows across the palate with ease, supple and seamlessly silky in texture, showcasing ripe red and black fruits that take on a tactile feel as grippy tannins and minerals mingle toward the close. It finishes structured and potent with dramatic length, leaving a minty resonance and hints of tart blackberry to fade slowly. The hauntingly dark 2020 is built on elegance, yet also displays a sense of refinement and balance that will carry it for many years in the cellar.
Wine Advocate: 93 Points
The organic Il Borro 2020 Il Borro (in a heavy glass bottle) is a big-boned Bordeaux blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The wine shows a lot of oak that comes off as toasted spice, coconut or buttered almond. There is a distant note of dried dill, probably in the pyrazine family of the Cabernet Sauvignon, but it dissipates within the context of the big, ripe black fruit at the core. From a hot vintage, you get a lot of richness and fruit weight.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
Though luscious and concentrated, this red is also light on its feet. Flavors of plum, blackberry, boysenberry and fruitcake abound, accented by iron and spice notes, with a hint of wild herbs. Firm tannins line the finish, yet this reveals fine harmony and a lingering aftertaste. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.
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