Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

This is a well made very classical style. It is well extracted, bold, round some nice integration and elegance.

Like to try this in another 7-8 plus years.

WS Grand Tour Las Vegas 2025. — 13 days ago

Adam Kincaid

9.3

Gorgeous bottle of ruby red shades and intense aromatics featuring vanilla, spices, rose petals, and nuts. Quite complex. Great medium+ body and strong acidic structure but with a refined weight and balance, it’s not overpowering but has a lot of character. Really good lingering finish. — 2 months ago

Arturo Rodriguez

9.0

Excellent quality to price ratio!! — a month ago

Freddy R. Troya

9.0

A compelling, historical and sophisticated Chianti Classico Riserva dedicated to the Mazzei’s notable ancestor, Ser Lapo, known as the “father” of the Chianti wine appellation in Tuscany. The V.2016 also had a composition blend of 90% Sangiovese and 10% Merlot. This wine as a “Riserva” under the Chianti Classic Classification system has to be aged a min of 24 months in barrels including 3 months in the bottle prior release.

Decanted for 35 Mins served as an opener of an Italian-inspired dishes, made it a perfect amplifier to appreciate the balance of freshness, richness and complexity. The acidity remains at the perfect point and the red cherries and fig notes are quite palpable from the very beginning, the wine dances in your palate, it jumps on flavor of cherry, tobacco leaf, toasted spices and fresh herbs notes come out alive from the glass, as an overall this wine dances in your mouth with great harmony of the juiciness and integrated medium plus tannins.

The label is another great release from Mazzei family, which is one of Tuscany’s oldest wine dynasties (25 winemaking generations for 600+ years. The script at the top of this wine label is a reproduction of a historic correspondence of a document dated December 16, 1398 that addresses this “father” of Chianti.

Simply lovely, cheers! — 22 days ago

Carter Snead

9.5

Mother’s Day! — 15 days ago

with John and Leigh

Fabiana Serrudo

9.5

Great wine — a month ago

Antra Stabler

9.6

Strong solid flavour. Full bodied, but not over powering. Consistent taste to the end of the bottle. GiftFromCarol. — 10 days ago

Nagib Nasr

8.9

Nice with prime rib — 3 days ago

John W

9.6

Tawny coloration with the slightest bit of transparency. On the nose, cherry, currants, plum, forest floor, sweet tobacco and florals. On the palate, full body, cherry, plum, spice, leather, sweet tobacco, earth/dust/minerals, tannins strong and chewy. Long finish of chocolate and sweet berry. Layered and complex wine. — a month ago

Andrew McIntyre

9.4

Unbelievably young but already smooth. Really fruity at this stage but will evolve nicely. Was hard to identify as a Supertuscan. Would consider buying some of this vintage and forgetting about it for 10 years... — 2 months ago