Aside from gout and broken blood vessels, one of the more useful symptoms that you develop as a wine merchant is a mental algorithm that allows you to calculate the ‘price versus quality’ ratio of a wine with a fair degree of speed and accuracy. Bells start to ring as soon as the formula spills out a positive result and this wine did exactly did that. It’s a fun, approachable and unadorned Sangiovese, packed with bright and juicy sweet cherries straight off the tree with red fruits, notes of rosehip and the gentlest grip of tannins that never pinches. The perfect everyday red, with plenty of Italian personality. Saluti! 12.5% alc. Drink now – 2026.