2007 Wine from Italy

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: The nose is full of flowers and berries with dark cherries and ripe strawberries. Hints of flowers too. It's full-bodied, with wonderful structure with bright acidity. Super clean and beautiful. Very pure and firm. Needs...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2007 Aglianico del Vulture Riserva Gudarrà is a standout wine and one of the best expression of Aglianico from Basilicata I tasted this year. The wine opens to a dark, impenetrable appearance with determined aromas of...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: An impressively structured wine. Aromas of blueberries and blackberries with hints of violets. Full body with velvety, rich tannins. Very tannic and powerful, yet the tannins are polished and pretty. Layers of everything...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2007 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico was bottled seven months before I tasted it. Grapes undergo a four-month appassimento for extra concentration and intensity. Despite this heavy-handed winemaking technique (in...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2007 d’Alceo shows none of the Sammarco’s early appeal. It is a dark, inward wine imbued with black fruit, roasted coffee beans, grilled herbs and licorice, all of which build effortlessly towards the huge, explosive...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: The wine has evolved into a single vineyard pure Merlot. Spice smoke and berry with black olives. Full and juicy with smoked meat and ripe fruits. Long and delicious. Milk chocolate too. Juicy red. Grows on you. Don't...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: Plums, grilled herbs, smoke and licorice flesh out in the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Akronte. The firm Cabernet tannins are present, but there is more than enough depth in the fruit to provide balance. Intensely spiced notes...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: What beautiful clear fruit here with plums and spices and hints of flowers. Class. Full- bodied and luscious this Brunello fills your mouth with polished velvety tannins and gorgeous fruit. So wonderful and gorgeous...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: A powerful and rich red with blackberry milk chocolate and cherry character. Full and soft. Best from 2011 through 2016. 3900 cases made. -JS

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: Aromas of blueberries and vanilla follow through to a full body with soft and silky tannins and a fruity refined finish. This is dense and polished with a fascinating depth of fruit. Beautiful. Made from organic grapes...

Vinous, 96 points: The 2007 Costanti Brunello di Montalcino is more elegant and less explosive than the Riserva. Exquisite aromatics meld into layers of expressive fruit in a Brunello that is surprisingly crystalline for the vintage...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 91 points: Bright deep ruby. Knockout nose combines blackberry bitter chocolate mocha roast coffee tar and pungent herbs all lifted by a violet topnote. Large-scaled and fat with fruit but boasts solid acidity for such ripe grapes...

Wine Spectator, 94 points: There's beautiful fruit in this red which shows pure cherry plum and licorice aromas and flavors highlighted by oak spice and floral notes. Detailed and elegant with solid power underneath. The finish echoes fruit and...