" This is the best ever, with incredible depth and concentration. The refined tannins show energy and balance. Everything is there. Blackberry, black cherry, mushroom, and damp earth. It lingers for minutes. So accessible, but keep it in the cellar. Mainly from Lamole. Superb." (James Suckling 2022)
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Nose
Aromatic, with notes of blackberry, plum, black cherry, mushroom, and damp earth
Mouth
Incredible depth and concentration, energy and balance, power and minerality, very elegant, refined tannins, long, intense, and fruity finish.
Serve
In a carafe, at 14-16°C
Drink from
2025
Drink before
2040
Food and wine pairings
Serve with a nice grilled beef brisket or ribeye steak, veal kidneys with chanterelle mushrooms, duck breast with port wine...
Decanter
Wine rated (2020 guide) 93/100
Rated estate (2020 guide) Recommended
About wine:
As with Testamatta, there is a delicious flavor of raspberry and spicy plum. A superb wine combining high acidity and enveloping freshness with concentrated licorice and velvety tannins. The juicy and subtly structured finish has staying power and persistence. Both Bibi Graetz wines stop you in your tracks. The grapes were selected from four different vineyards, each of which was harvested up to eight times to ensure full ripeness, with vines aged at least 70 years.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
Wine rated (2020 guide) 97/100 (Extraordinary wine)
Rated estate (2021 guide) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Robert Parker - The Wine Advocate)
About wine:
Compared to Testamatta, which proved more difficult during the blending phase, Bibi Graetz's Colore 2018 went smoothly, as he recounts. With this vintage, Colore (with 9,000 bottles produced) has almost become a single-vineyard wine, since up to 90% of its fruit comes from old vines (these are majestic plants aged between 80 and 135 years) in the high-altitude area of Lamole, where Bibi cultivates five hectares. The addition of Colorino to this Sangiovese wine has been reduced to just 5% in this vintage: "A bit like a touch of lipstick," says Bibi. The Colorino grape brings remarkable elevation and liveliness to this vintage. Compared to Testamatta, this wine has more structure, with deep, penetrating aromas of red berries, ruby cherries, crushed aspirin, iron-rich earth, crushed flowers, and a few aromatic herbs used in Fernet-Branca. My only hesitation is that the wine takes time to open up on the bouquet, and I coaxed two bottles of Colore for two days before writing this review. As a result, I recommend postponing consumption for a few more years to give the wine time to develop and open up fully.
Wine Enthusiast
Wine rated (2021 guide) 94/100
Rated estate (2022 guide) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
About wine:
Made from very old vines and a blend of 90% Sangiovese, 5% Colorino, and 5% Canaiolo, this lovely red wine offers delicate and seductive aromas of plum, vanilla, crushed mint, and fragrant blue flowers. Elegantly structured and with good aromatic depth, the flavorful and concentrated palate offers marasca cherry, orange peel, mocha, and licorice. It is well-balanced, with taut, refined tannins and fresh acidity. Drink between 2023 and 2033.
Jancis Robinson
Rated Recommended
James Suckling
Wine rated (2022 guide) 99/100
Rated estate (2022 guide) Recommended
About wine:
This is the best ever, with incredible depth and concentration. The refined tannins show energy and balance. Everything is there. Blackberry, black cherry, mushroom, and damp earth. It lingers for several minutes. So accessible, but best kept in the cellar. Mainly from Lamole. Superb.
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