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One of the flagships of Italian wine, Banfi has always been a top brand in our Global Masters competitions. Here we detail which Banfi wines won medals in our recent spring tasting.
ABOVE Banfi has always been the source of the best Global Masters wines for years. And, in our most recent competition, The Spring Tasting, it won some of the highest accolades on offer. Whether whites or reds from indigenous grapes and international varieties, Banfi excelled in our first blind tasting of 2021, designed to evaluate the latest releases on the market. We bring you the results, and the comments on this set of brilliant bottles from this benchmark Italian wine producer.
THE PETTEGOLA 2020
La Pettegola is Italian slang for a chatty woman – inspired by the sound made by the bird of the same name – so it’s likely that this wine has a lot to say, bursting with flavor, ranging from ripe peach and pink grapefruit to bitter almond. It’s also a fairly full bodied white, despite having fresh acidity and a salty edge, making it an appealing combination of texture and mouth cleansing.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Grape variety: Vermentino
ABV: 13%
Vintage: 2020
UK Retail Price: £ 15 – £ 20
Medal: Silver
ASKA 2017
If you like Cabernet and Italian reds, then Aska – which means “container” in Etruscan – does the trick. This is because it exhibits some of the black fruits associated with this French grape, but also the bright, dry and typically Tuscan tannic structure. It’s a delicious union, complemented by notes of cigar box, tobacco, tar and licorice, as well as fresh plums and sour cherries.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon 90%, Cabernet Franc 10%
ABV: 14%
Vintage: 2017
UK Retail Price: £ 30
Medal: Gold
THE LUS 2017
Here’s something for the Italian wine lover who thought he had tried everything from Piedmont: a wine made from Albarossa – a red grape obtained by crossing Barbera with a grape from the south of France called Chatus. This is a serious rarity and a charming wine, with notes of sweet balsamic, black cherry and prunes, and a palate with similar characters, as well as tannins of cooked plum, cedar and chunky pieces, offering lots of flavor. dry refreshment.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Piedmont
Grape varieties: Albarossa
ABV: 13.5%
Vintage: 2017
UK Retail Price: £ 25
Medal: Silver
CASTELLO BANFI BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO, 2016
Looking for the Brunello manual? So there are few better bottles than this: Castello Banfi. It’s a reliable and beautifully made expression of this brilliant region, with its aromas of plum, fleshy red fruits and cedar. Then there is the sensation in the mouth, which marvelously blends freshness and fleshiness, with its richness of sour cherry, its balsamic sweetness, then the dry tobacco, a little bitterness of sour cherry, and finally a beautiful sensation of tannins in the sandy texture. A reference to this price.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Grape variety: Sangiovese 100%
ABV: 14%
Vintage: 2016
UK Retail Price: £ 40
Medal: Gold
POGGIO ALLE MURA BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO, 2016
Coming from the vineyards below the walled hill – or Poggio alle Mura – home to the medieval Banfi Castle, this is the best expression of the Brunello producer, and it is certainly a taste of Sangiovese at its best. Layers of flavor can be enjoyed in this delicate yet intense red, with its red cherry sweetness and ripe orange refreshment, along with dry, lingering cigar box and plum notes, edged with textured tannins. fine and coating. It is a wine with pure fruit, full of flavor and a delicate side that makes you want to sip it again and again. It is a first-rate wine from a first-rate vintage.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Grape varieties: Sangiovese (resulting from a combination of clones selected by the domain, from the research of the domain started in 1982)
ABV: 15%
Vintage: 2016
UK Retail Price: £ 60
Medal: Master
SUM, 2017
Here at the top or top of Banfi’s super-Tuscan offering is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese and Syrah. It is a fascinating and delicious wine, with the characteristics of the great Tuscan reds – and this means that it has a lot of freshness and a beautiful tannic structure – combined with the characters of the French grapes in the blend, which provide the dark fruit. and a deep color. There’s also plenty of spice, fleshy cherry and ripe cassis, with a hint of balsamic and lovely lingering cedarwood on the finish. In short, this is a great wine which is delicious now, but with the strength to age and develop greater complexity over the course of many years to come.
Producer: Banfi
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon 45%, Sangiovese 35%, Syrah 20%
ABV: 15.5%
Vintage: 2017
UK Retail Price: £ 50
Medal: Gold
About Banfi
In 1978, brothers Harry and John Mariani bought 1,820 hectares of land south of Montalcino and founded Castello Banfi, one of the jewels of Tuscany.
Having increased the estate to 2,830 ha, today a third of the land is planted with vines in a constellation of unique vineyards, the rest being occupied by olive groves, wheat fields and plum trees.
Over the past 40 years, the four key pillars of Banfi’s ethics have been: research; innovation; sustainability and its pioneering spirit, embodied by John and Harry Mariani.
Over the past decade, Banfi has prioritized sustainability and ecologically producing wine in order to protect his land for future generations of the family.
The Banfi portfolio includes wines from Montalcino, Maremma, Bolgheri, Piedmont and Chianti Classico, which are exported to 85 countries around the world. Contact: [email protected]
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