Baron d'Ugo, IGT Toscana, 2015

Name: Baron d'Ugo, IGT Toscana
Brand: Monteraponi
Price: 442.73 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2013 2015 2018 2019

justerini & brooks tasting note

Open and inviting aromas of ripe rasperries and strawberries with a sweeter note of Victoria plum. Complex, broad and sumptuous Chianti classic, lifted by its minerality. The intense, savoury dried herb, crushed rock and sea salt character add dimension and crunch to the sweet fruit. The same blend and the same vinification as Campitello (90% Sangiovese, 7% Canaiolo and 3% Colorino) yet such a different wine. At 570 meters above sea level this South East-facing vineyard is the highest on the Monteraponi estate, indeed one of the very highest in Chianti Classico. The soils are intensely rocky and poor - this is pure hard limestone, known locally as Albarese. In the very best vintages the juice from the Baron d’Ugo vineyard is fermented separately and aged in large French and Slavonian oak casks for 36 months.

critic reviews

94/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

I had tasted this wine from barrel in 2018, and here is my final review from the bottle. The 2015 Baron'Ugo is 90% Sangiovese with 7% Canaiolo and 3% Colorino, and the wine denomination was changed from Chianti Classico Riserva to IGT Toscana. This is a deep and charming wine that needs a few more years of bottle aging to flesh out further and put on volume. The nose is solid and packed with budding complexity in the form of black cherry, dark rose and wet earth. This wine speaks with a heavy Tuscan accent, with silky vowels, soft tones and "H" sounds in the place of harder "C's." The "Hanaiolo" and "Holorino," especially, produce a beautiful "bouhet."

DRINKING WINDOW 2020 - 2035

date of review 09/2019

92/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2015 Baron'Ugo, the estate's top Sangiovese-based wine, is bright and perfumed, with lovely red berry, spice, mint and floral character. Medium in body and silky, the 2015 has much to offer. Crushed flowers, mint, game, licorice and tobacco add a touch of Sangiovese wildness throughout. The aromatics could be a bit more focused, and yet there is tremendous character and personality here, an element of rusticity notwithstanding.

DRINKING WINDOW 2021 - 2035

date of review 08/2019