Collazzi – 2021

Bright and savory nose of ripe cherries, currants, and hints of black olives, graphite and licorice. Very fine and smooth with good volume and length. Structured and firm, with a medium to full body and lightly chewy tannins. Solid and well made. Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc and petit verdot. Will come together nicely in the next two to three years. Try from 2027.

The 2021 Collazzi IGT bottling from Tenuta I Collazzi is made from a classic Bordeaux cépages of fifty percent cabernet sauvignon, twenty-five percent cabernet franc, twenty percent merlot and five percent petit verdot. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in cask, with fifty percent of the barrels new and then is aged a year and a half in oak prior to bottling. The 2021 vintage of Collazzi comes in at 14.5 percent octane and offers up a refined and complex bouquet of cassis, cigar ash, dark soil tones, tobacco leaf, a touch of fresh oregano, coffee grounds and a refined framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and nascently complex, with excellent mid-palate depth, firm tannins, fine balance and grip and a long, chewy and very promising finish. This is properly structured out of the blocks and will demand some extended cellaring time to blossom, but once it is ready to drink, it will be a fine bottle. 2037 – 2075