Classico

When Antinori bought the Badia estate near Tignanello and invested vast sums of money we'd have bet our DRC the result would be aimed squarely at Bob Gambero Parker. Not so. It's old school class.

Bourbon lovers rejoice. Imagine a grape, blackberry, bing cherry flavored whiskey with tons of oak, alcohol and intensity & you have this powerhouse from Italy. Not for the faint of palate.

Dark red to almost black in the glass, showing aromas of plum, confectioners sugar, floral fall leaves, coca, roasted chestnut and cinnamon. Cherry cough syrup, raisin, more cinnamon, clove and dark chocolate. It's full...

I may have gotten a bad bottle, but this is perhaps the most insipid wine I've ever tasted. It was like drinking wine-flavored water. I grabbed it at the off-sale next door because I was out of white and had a...