Bibi Graetz Toscana IGT Balocchi di Colore No 1 2020

So easy to fall in love with this pure Sangiovese wine, with fragrant raspberry and red plum fruits. Manages to show delicacy but plenty of tannic structure, elegant and delicate but full of joy, with mouthwatering freshness and tension, freshly cut herbs, white pepper, raspberry and redcurrant fruits with a clarity and energy, all tugging you forward through the palate with gentle power. If great wine is about eliciting emotion, it may be useful to know that I immediately began cooking Tuscan bean soup after tasting this. The Vincigliata plot was planted in the 1960s and is located by the house where Bibi was born – if that’s not a sweet enough family story, the label was drawn by his eldest daughter. Wild yeast ferment, aged in old oak casks that ensure structure without imparting flavours.