Italian Wine Champions Reds Case

This exclusive Chianti was a winner in our 2024 Wine Champions blind tastings, a testament to the talents of Francesco Ricasoli, whose family has been making wine in Chianti Classico at Castello di Brolio since the 12th century. This traditional-style example has wonderful lift, with red apple and rosemary aromas and great elegance. For a video message from the winemaker, and for more on the story of this wine, please scroll down.

Pure blackberry and raspberry-fruit driven, soft, balanced Sicilian red that is perfect with or without food. The estate works to conserve the local flora and has catalogued rare species of orchids on their land. As a further move to improve biodiversity, Feudo Arancio has planted a lemon grove inside the stone quarries on the estate and thus rehabilitated previously damaged land.

The exceptional 2021 Chianti vintage is ripe for drinking now, as evidenced by this 2024 Wine Champion. Praised by our tasters for its traditional style and for being particularly food-friendly. Its vivid cherry, spice and leather notes will complement a huge range of dishes.

Few reds work better than good montepulciano for a comforting, characterful accompaniment to midweek pizza and pasta, and this year it was Gran Sasso that leapt out as the perfect candidate and as a worthy Wine Champion in 2024. ‘Drinking beautifully`, with full-bodied cherry, raspberry and blackcurrant fruit backed up by second-glass-inviting freshness.

‘Nebbiolo is rarely this good under £15,` said one taster as this was voted a Wine Champion. ‘Lovely, crunchy cherry fruit – serious wine!` said another. No stranger to Championship victory, this wine is made from young vines in otherwise Barbaresco-certified vineyards, and this quality jumps out in the glass. Perfumed with roses and violets, this is a sultry, spicy Italian classic.