Reviews and Scores (wine score) is the section dedicated to evaluations of wines tasted by the Winemag editorial team. Tasting notes, wine scores out of 100 (/100), technical details, and territorial context to read and interpret the performance of Italian and international labels. An informative tool for navigating denominations, producers, vintages, and wine styles through intuitive wine scores.
Montefalco Grechetto Doc confirms the grape’s historic role, but in direct comparison appears less incisive than Trebbiano Spoletino. The 6 samples tasted range between 86 and 90 points, with an average of 88.3. The profile is more contained, less expansive. Notes of exotic fruit, ripe fruit, salinity, and a phenolic component that in some cases […]
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The 12 Sagrantino 2022 presented in preview have an average of 93 points. It’s a high figure, but must be read with caution: the number of samples is limited and the selection doesn’t represent the entire denomination. Precisely for this reason, rather than photographing the vintage as a whole, the tasting shows the direction chosen
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The paradox of “A Montefalco” 2026 lies right here: Sagrantino is losing its numerical dominance, yet it remains the category with the highest average quality among the reds on the market. Among the 42 samples present in the tasting room—from various vintages—the average is 91.4 points, with peaks of up to 96. This data confirms
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Montefalco Rosso Riserva Doc raises the bar, but not always with linear results. The 17 samples tasted have an average of 89.9 points, higher than that of Montefalco Rosso, but with a very wide range: from 84 to 95 points. The Riserva is the category in which production ambition emerges most forcefully, along with the
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Montefalco Rosso Doc is the category that best tells the story of the territory’s pursuit of immediacy. The 25 samples tasted have an average of 88.9 points, with peaks at 91. It’s not the denomination of absolute peaks. But it’s the one in which the attempt to build more accessible wines, centered on drinkability, fruit,
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Less and less Sagrantino di Montefalco and more and more Trebbiano Spoletino and Montefalco Rosso. With the shift from “Anteprima Sagrantino” to “A Montefalco“, the Consortium of Umbria’s renowned wine seems to have changed its skin, but above all its color. So much so that one wonders whether the new name of the event, launched
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The picture emerging from the 2025 Kalterersee Preview is quite clear. This is a vintage focused on immediate pleasure, with wines built more on “smoothness” than depth. PROFILE OF THE 2025 KALTERERSEE VINTAGE The samples show a common thread: fresh, often crunchy red fruit, accompanied by clean and direct aromatic profiles. The wines are approachable
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Langhe Doc now occupies an increasingly central position in the mosaic of Piedmont denominations. Established in 1994 with the aim of uniting and promoting a territory already world-famous—Langhe and Roero—it has progressively transformed into a key tool for interpreting the Langhe from a contemporary perspective, without losing its link to tradition and without the—often negative—aura
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Barbaresco 2023 arrives at Grandi Langhe 2026 with one of the most complex vintages in recent years in Piedmont. The Winemag scores on the best Barbaresco 2023 capture a vintage less uniform than the previous one, but capable of expressing quality peaks of absolute importance in the Langhe. Nebbiolo from Barbaresco contended with an irregular
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The presentation of Barolo 2022 at Grandi Langhe 2026 marks the “official” market entry of an anticipated and much-discussed vintage. The scores assigned by Winemag to the tasted samples offer an initial qualitative snapshot of a vintage born under extreme weather conditions, with prolonged heat and widespread water stress. BAROLO 2022 HARVEST: HEAT AND ACCELERATED
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