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Tua Rita Redigaffi 2014 750ml

size
750ml
country
Italy
region
Tuscany
appellation
Bolgheri
5 Ratings
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DC
95
WA
95
JS
95
WS
93
VM
91
Additional vintages
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2005
DC
95
Rated 95 by Decanter
2014 was one of the coolest and rainiest vintages ever on the Tuscan coast. According to Tua Rita they were saved by the winds blowing in from the sea, which 'came to the rescue and dried the grapes, helping to prevent rot.' There are dark fruit flavours and aromas of sweet, ripe blackberry, apple tart and smoke. It has a really pretty weight and texture and a feeling of lightness and ease, yet there's plenty of concentration and intensity. The tannins are a little firmer, as you might expect in a vintage such as this. A lovely example of 2014 in Tuscany. ... More details
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Tua Rita Redigaffi 2014 750ml

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Professional Ratings
DC
95
WA
95
JS
95
WS
93
VM
91
DC
95
Rated 95 by Decanter
2014 was one of the coolest and rainiest vintages ever on the Tuscan coast. According to Tua Rita they were saved by the winds blowing in from the sea, which 'came to the rescue and dried the grapes, helping to prevent rot.' There are dark fruit flavours and aromas of sweet, ripe blackberry, apple tart and smoke. It has a really pretty weight and texture and a feeling of lightness and ease, yet there's plenty of concentration and intensity. The tannins are a little firmer, as you might expect in a vintage such as this. A lovely example of 2014 in Tuscany.
WA
95
Rated 95 by Wine Advocate
Of the wines tasted in this historic retrospective, this is the bottle that most surprised and delighted me. The Tua Rita 2014 Redigaffi is a real showstopper with an assembly of fresh and especially aromatic fruit and floral details. The wine is medium lean in consistency, as you might expect from one of the coolest (and wettest) vintages that coastal Tuscany has seen in our lifetimes. There is wild cherry, cranberry, violet, lavender, mint, white pepper, dried spice and the list could go on. I'm giving it a higher score than I gave on the occasion of my first tasting many years ago.
JS
95
Rated 95 by James Suckling
There’s a spicy edge here, with aromas of grilled plums, herbs, soy, black truffles and olives. Full-bodied with firm, lightly grainy tannins. Saline, then evolves to coffee. Toasty and flavorful finish. 100% merlot. Drink now or hold.
WS
93
Rated 93 by Wine Spectator
A dense, sinewy style, whose black cherry, toast, vanilla and cedar flavors are wrapped in a cloak of spicy oak. Shows a supple texture and good balance, set on a linear profile. Minerally, with terrific length. Merlot. Best from 2019 through 2028. 800 cases made.
VM
91
Rated 91 by Vinous Media
The 2014 Redigaffi attractive if somewhat slender wine. Lavender, dried flowers, mint and sweet plum infuse this very pretty, refined edition of the flagship Redigaffi. The 2014 has fleshed out nicely over the last year, especially on the mid-palate and finish, where the wine was once much less fully formed. There is more than enough pedigree to support at least a handful of years of fine drinking.
Winery
Deep, intense purple in color, with tremendous extraction, Redigaffi is a monumental and beautifully structured wine that shows how well the non-native Merlot has adapted to the area around Suvereto on the Tuscan coast.
Product Details
size
750ml
country
Italy
region
Tuscany
appellation
Bolgheri
Additional vintages
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2005
Overview
2014 was one of the coolest and rainiest vintages ever on the Tuscan coast. According to Tua Rita they were saved by the winds blowing in from the sea, which 'came to the rescue and dried the grapes, helping to prevent rot.' There are dark fruit flavours and aromas of sweet, ripe blackberry, apple tart and smoke. It has a really pretty weight and texture and a feeling of lightness and ease, yet there's plenty of concentration and intensity. The tannins are a little firmer, as you might expect in a vintage such as this. A lovely example of 2014 in Tuscany.
green grapes

Varietal: Merlot

Merlot has long been a grape associated with excellent quality of character and flavor, and has spread around the globe as a result of its relative hardiness and reliability. From Chile to Bordeaux, Merlot vines grow to ripeness, and end up producing a remarkably wide variety of wines. Single variety wines made from Merlot grapes tend to be beautifully rich in color, and packed full of jammy, hedgerow flavors and notes of plum and currant, and ideal for newcomers to red wines as a result of their medium body. This medium body comes about due to the fact that the skin of Merlot grapes tends to be quite thin, meaning that the tannin content of Merlot wines is lower than those made from other blue-black grapes. The mellowness and roundedness which results is ideal for blending, also, and Merlot is used as a blending grape in some of the world's finest wineries, to produce aged wines of exceptional character.
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Region: Tuscany

The central Italian region of Tuscany is widely understood to be one of the world's most famous and highly regarded wine regions. The beautiful rolling hillsides and medieval towns and castles which are a key feature of the area are also home to many of Europe's finest wineries, and extremely high quality vineyards growing the distinctive Sangiovese and Vernaccia grape varietals which are the flavorful backbone of Tuscany's wonderful red and white wines. For almost three thousand years, this region has been recognized as an ideal home for wine production on a large scale, and the ancient Etruscans, Greeks and Romans all noticed that fine grape varietals flourished on the unique soils and under the hot sunshine which typifies the area. Today, Tuscany is home to a wide range of wines, from the traditional to the complex, but all dedicated to excellent flavors and aromas, and maintaining the region's international reputation.
fields

Country: Italy

For several decades in the mid to late twentieth century, Italy's reputation for quality wines took a fairly serious blow. This was brought about partly due to lack of regulation in certain regions, and too much regulation in others. This led to several wineries in the beautiful and highly fertile region of Tuscany making the bold move to work outside of the law, which they saw as responsible for the drop in quality in Tuscan wines. They believed that they had the expertise and the generations of experience necessary with which to make truly excellent, world class wines, and set about doing just that. These 'Super Tuscans', as they came to be known, quickly inspired the rest of Italy to improve their produce, and now, Italian wine producers in the twenty-first century are widely recognised to be amongst the best in the world. Regulation and law began to change, and wine drinkers across the globe woke up to the outstanding wines coming out of Italy, which are continuing to improve and impress to this day.
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Varietal: Merlot

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The central Italian region of Tuscany is widely understood to be one of the world's most famous and highly regarded wine regions. The beautiful rolling hillsides and medieval towns and castles which are a key feature of the area are also home to many of Europe's finest wineries, and extremely high quality vineyards growing the distinctive Sangiovese and Vernaccia grape varietals which are the flavorful backbone of Tuscany's wonderful red and white wines. For almost three thousand years, this region has been recognized as an ideal home for wine production on a large scale, and the ancient Etruscans, Greeks and Romans all noticed that fine grape varietals flourished on the unique soils and under the hot sunshine which typifies the area. Today, Tuscany is home to a wide range of wines, from the traditional to the complex, but all dedicated to excellent flavors and aromas, and maintaining the region's international reputation.
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