Delivery April 2018 "The 2010 San Leonardo (Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère and
Merlot) is a seamless and polished wine that shows the best of this estate and
this vintage. This is a profound and lasting wine with a bouquet that opens to
dark fruit tones backed by spice, leather, tobacco and polished river stone. It
tastes very young now but offers good material (in terms of richness, acidity
and structure) to promise a steady aging evolution ahead. This edition of San
Leonardo is gorgeous with a capital G." 95/100 Wine Advocate (May-2016) “…one
of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers
separated in childhood.” Wine Advocate, December 2014 “Surely the most
successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy” Jancis Robinson, August 2012 The
wines are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and
(says leading Italian critic Nicolas Belfrage) ‘can have an elegance-cum-depth
capable of taking on the best clarets of the world‘. San Leonardo’s owner
Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, a rare example (at the time) of a
professionally-trained aristocrat-oenologist, spent time at Tenuta San Guido
back in the 1960s and subsequently employed the same legendary consultant,
Giacomo Tachis, as Sassicaia for a time. San Leonardo’s outstanding Bordeaux
blend has received ‘Tre Bicchiere’ from Gambero Rosso for an extraordinary
thirteen vintages consecutively and was also numbered among the Guide’s ‘Fifty
Wines which changed Italy’. After great write-ups from Jancis and last year Will
Lyons from the Wall Street Journal (whom we introduced to the estate), the Wine
Advocate finally got on board in December with Monica Larmer giving recent
vintages of San Leonardo 94-97 point scores. The vintage received 95 points from
James Suckling.