2020 Le Macchiole Messorio
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
Release Price: $300
Drink Date: 2025 - 2048
Made with Merlot, the 2020 Messorio is a profound and richly textured wine that has become one of vintner Cinza Merli's flagships. Ripe fruit, dark cherry, oak spice and toast converge with balanced intensity to characterize this generous expression from Tuscany. The issue with Merlot, especially in a hot vintage such as this, is ripeness or, specifically, over-ripeness. Messorio navigates a challenging growing season with flying colors.
Published: Jun 01, 2023
2020 Le Macchiole Paleo
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by:Monica Larner
Release Price:$160
Drink Date:2025 - 2048
One of Italy's best Cabernet Francs, the Le Macchiole 2020 Paleo is very dense and richly concentrated with a level of dark fruit that can only be chipped at and broken down by slow cellar aging. Paleo is always a wine for the long haul. The oak needs time to integrate and find focus. Even at this young stage, the quality of the tannins and the spot-on fruit ripeness is convincing. A note of sweet cherry, exotic spice and dark chocolate make for a long send-off.
Published: Jun 01, 2023
2005 Le Macchiole Scrio
The Wine Advocate
RP 90
Reviewed by:Antonio Galloni
Release Price:$235
Drink Date:2008 - 2015
Syrah is a variety that thrives in hot weather, so it is not entirely surprising that 2005 was an especially challenging vintage for Le Macchiole's Scrio. It offers attractive notes of mint, toasted oak, chocolate and dark fruit framed by well-integrated, silky tannins. The wine improves with air, yet a hint of dilution remains in this small-scaled, slender Scrio. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2015. Le Macchiole releases its wines later than most estates on the Tuscan coast, so readers will find the 2004s in the market, while the 2005s are due to arrive this Fall. Proprietor Cinzia Merli and long-time oenologist Luca D-Attoma have turned out a glorious set of 2004s. The 2005 vintage proved to be much more challenging as the damp, fresh growing season made it hard to achieve full ripeness. These are pretty wines, but they aren't quite at the level of the estate's finest efforts. Importer: Domaine Select, New York, NY; tel. (212) 279-0799
2020 Le Macchiole • Bolgheri Rosso
Rating 93 points
Release Price $40
Drink Date 2022 - 2030 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 30th Jul 2022
Source End of July 2022, The Wine Advocate
The Le Macchiole 2020 Bolgheri Rosso is 50% Merlot, 20% Syrah, 15% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a powerhouse wine that has become a steady little engine for the estate economy, growing from a production of 36,000 bottles to 140,000 bottles made annually today. This vintage does a terrific balancing act with dark fruit and concentration on the one hand and an accessible easy-drinking personality on the other. Black fruit cedes to baked brioche, spice and toasted aniseed. The wine finishes for 10 months in a combination of second, third and fourth-year barrique, and about 30% of the total goes into cement. The finish is polished and fresh, and you get good value.
2018 Le Macchiole Paleo
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 8th Oct 2021
Source October 2021 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
Rating 97 points
Release Price $120
Drink Date 2023 - 2045 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
You could argue that this wine changed Italian wine, because it was the first to fully embrace the potential of Cabernet Franc in the bel paese. The Le Macchiole 2018 Paleo has a spicy and tangy personality with dark fruit, bitter chocolate and tarry smoke. Coming back to my open bottle 24 hours later, I got some green olive and rosemary essence. The mouthfeel fleshes out considerably, and there is beautiful structure to hold it firmly together. Other vintners in Bolgheri have told me of their difficulties with Cabernet Franc in the 2018 vintage, which saw rain toward the end of the season. This wine feels magically immune to those issues and probably means that the expert vineyard team harvested at the right moment.
2002 Le Macchiole • Messorio
Reviewed by Antonio Galloni
Issue Date 28th Feb 2007
Source 169, The Wine Advocate
Rating 90points ←上々の評価です
Drink Date 2008 - 2017
Release Price $130
The 2002 Messorio (100% Merlot) presents dark fruit, tar and licorice notes along with a powerful, brooding personality. While it doesn’t have the volume or expansiveness of the finest vintages, it is nevertheless an outstanding effort showing notable harmony as well as balance. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2017.
深みのある紫紅。カシスリキュール、濃縮したブルーベリーの果実香。
柔らかい口当たり、ミネラルからくる旨みが強い。フレッシュさ香りの華やかさが際立つ赤ワインです。
品種 メルロー 50%/カベルネ・フラン 20%/カベルネ・ソーヴィニヨン 20%/シラー 10%
2019 Le Macchiole Bolgheri Rosso
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 8th Oct 2021
Source Issue October 2021 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
Rating 93 points
Release Price $35
Drink Date 2021 - 2026
Released to much fanfare amidst growing popularity for this entry-level
appellation on the Tuscan coast, the Le Macchiole 2019 Bolgheri Rosso is
a beautiful specimen, thanks to its honest simplicity and its charming
approach. The wine reveals good fruit complexity with blue and purple
berries contrasted against toasted spice and baked earth. But if
anything truly stands out here, it is the expert integration and
generally seamlessness of the wine's various moving parts. This is a
terrific wine to uncork for a fun family meal with pasta and grilled
meats around the kitchen table.
2013 Le Macchiole Scrio
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 29th Oct 2016
Source 227, The Wine Advocate
Rating 96 points
Release Price $175
Drink Date 2017 - 2035
The 2013 Scrio is an opulent, generous and engaging wine. It reveals an
all-Syrah personality with ample layers of dark fruit, blackberry, spice,
cured meat, leather and bacon fat. Its integration is absolutely
seamless. Scrio is dark and impenetrable in terms of appearance and
presentation. The bouquet and the mouthfeel are long and luscious. You
can count the length of the finish in many, many long seconds. Only
5,000 bottles are made. In terms of its aging potential, this Tuscan
Syrah has the inner energy to last two decades or more.
2005 Le Macchiole Messorio
Reviewed by Antonio Galloni
Issue Date 30th Jun 2008
Source 177, The Wine Advocate
Rating: 93points ←素晴らしい評価です
Drink Date :2009 - 2017
Release Price :$330
Initially somewhat restrained, the 2005 Messorio opens up with time in the glass, showing an array of dark fruit, plums, licorice and truffles, with sweet, silky-textured tannins. Even though this is a somewhat slender Messorio in relative terms, it has all the qualities of first-class Merlot. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2017.
2003 Le Macchiole • Messorio
Reviewed by Antonio Galloni
Issue Date 28th Feb 2007
Source 169, The Wine Advocate
Rating 93points ←素晴らしい評価です
Drink Date 2007 - 2015
Release Price $260
The 2003 Messorio (100% Merlot) is simply stunning. Voluminous and expansive on the palate, it offers rich layers of jammy dark fruit, plums, cassis and toasted oak with extraordinary length and an utterly seductive personality. While it may not have the complexity or detail of the very finest vintages, it does offer much pleasure in the very ripe style of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2015.
2000 Le Macchiole • Messorio
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 29th Oct 2016
Source 227, The Wine AdvocateReviewed by Daniel Thomases
Rating 93points ←素晴らしい評価です
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2016 - 2022 ←飲み頃です
Here’s a great start to this vertical of one of Italy’s most celebrated Merlots. The 2000 Messorio occupies a perfect place in its evolution with just enough fruit at its core to feel alive. It also shows sophisticated tertiary notes that underline its pedigree and evolution. It is profoundly beautiful in its current drinking phase. From this vintage up until 2007, smaller oak vessels were used. The percentage of new oak is tweaked according to the vintage but the updated incarnation of the wine sees anywhere up to 70% new oak. The 2000 vintage was a hot one and considerable canopy management was implemented to protect the fruit from sunburn. Dark fruit and plum is enhanced by ground espresso, candied orange, toasted almond and dusty mineral notes.
2004 Le Macchiole Paleo
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by:Antonio Galloni
Release Price:$120
Drink Date:2011 - 2020
The 2004 Paleo (Cabernet Franc) is an intense, brooding wine imbued with the essence of dark fruit, scorched earth, grilled herbs, toasted oak and licorice. Made in a rich, super-concentrated style, this imposing Paleo will require patience. A second bottle took quite a bit of aeration before the elegance of its silky-textured tannins emerged. Anticipated maturity: 2011-2020.
1999 Messorio
Reviewed by Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Issue Date 31st Dec 2002
Source 144, The Wine Advocate
Rating 98points
Drink Date 2009 - 2019
Release Price $76
The awesome, saturated purple-colored 1999 Messorio is a 100% Merlot aged 18 months in French oak prior to being bottled without filtration. The alcohol is a lofty 14.6% and the dry extract number is about the highest technically I have ever seen. The first vintage of this cuvee was 1995, so it is still an infant in terms of how well it develops in the bottle. However, the 1999 is packed and stacked. Aromas of cola, coffee, blackberries, and intense black cherry jam interspersed with mocha, licorice, and pain grille characteristics are followed by a massive wine with great precision, purity, concentration, and length. I don't want to get too carried away since only 4,000 bottles were produced, but this is a riveting example of what can be achieved on the Tuscan coastline. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2019.