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My Italian Wine Of The Year is 2010 Marchesi Antinori Toscana Solaia (Click here for the note and score). Last Friday, I posted my Top 100 New-Release Italian Wines. This list was a simple numbers game ranking wines by score from 99 points downwards. My Italian Wine Of The Year and the nine runners up look to availability and popularity in the market as other determining factors. Ideally, I would like everyone interested to buy a bottle, even a case if they can afford it, of My Italian Wine Of The Year.
That’s why I chose the Solaia 2010 in 2013. Just about anyone interested in fine wine knows this great Super Tuscan wine of Florence’s Antinori family. However, they may not know that the 2010 is the greatest Solaia since the legendary 1997. In fact, these two wines are the best Solaias ever.
Solaia, and its sister wine Tignanello (which by the way was fabulous as well in 2010), are icons for quality winemaking in Tuscany, and also Italy at large. The patriarch of the Antinori family, Piero Antinori, created the wines in the 1970s to show the world that his country could produce reds that competed with the best of France. And he proved it. The wines are now two of the most famous premium Italian wines in the world. Today, Solaia is bought, consumed and collected like the best of Bordeaux from Chateau Latour to Chateau Margaux.
Runners up (Click on the wine for score and note)
#2 2011 Tua Rita Toscana Redigaffi
#3 2006 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino Riserva
#4 2011 Petrolo Toscana Galatrona
#5 2008 Bibi Graetz Toscana Testamatta
#6 2010 Gaja Langhe Sori Tildin
#7 2010 Luce della Vite Toscana Luce
#8 2007 Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino Madonna del Piano Riserva
