Tenuta Tignanello - IGT Toscana - Solaia - Red - 2022

Wine:

The 2022 Red IGT Toscana Solaia ranks among Italy’s greatest wines and vies for the title of best wine in the world. Its production follows standards worthy of the finest classified growths, with every detail carefully considered and executed, from harvest through to aging in new French oak. The result lives up to the effort: a wine of remarkable aromatic complexity, with layers of black fruit aromas, floral notes, spice and tobacco. It shows a structure that is both generous and majestic, with extraordinary smoothness, carried this year by 77 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. It is the very essence of Tuscany, with an originality that cannot be imitated, dazzling connoisseurs and charming newcomers alike with equal emotion.

Vinification:

Hand harvested grapes. The grapes were carefully destemmed and sorted. Aged in French oak barrels for 18 months in the estate's 16th-century underground cellars.

Color:

Deep ruby red with purple highlights.

Nose:

A generous nose of black fruits, where blackcurrant, blueberry, plum, and fig mingle with delicate floral notes of violet.

Palate:

A creamy, rich palate, carried by a vibrant freshness, where silky, enveloping tannins support an intense finish with remarkable depth.

Temperature:

Serve at 14 to 16°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Italian-style porchetta, vitello tonnato, pink duck breast with chanterelle mushrooms, creamy black truffle risotto.

Cellar aging:

Serve at 14 to 16°C.

Solaia is the crown jewel of the Antinori family, a true showpiece of the global wine world. This 10-hectare vineyard, perched at 400 meters on an ideally exposed slope, rests on a unique limestone base.

The first vintage, released in 1978, helped pave the way for the “Super Tuscans,” alongside Sassicaia and Ornellaia — wines freed from the constraints of their appellation, inspired by Bordeaux blends, and able to rival their French counterparts in aroma, texture and depth. With Solaia, every vintage is a statement, bold yet precise.