2021 Tua Rita Redigaffi Organic, Tuscany

Wow. The aromas are really something else with red fruits, black olives, spices like cardamon and nutmeg, as well as hints of tar and meat. It’s full-bodied yet in check and focus with fine, fine tannins that roll over the palate and create beautiful motion. Chewy yet silky and endless. A great young merlot and one of the best for a number of years. Try after 2028.

99 points jamessuckling.com

The Tua Rita 2021 Redigaffi is a wine of thick character and dark extraction. This 100% expression of Merlot offers tension and extreme balance with very generous layers of dark cherry, plum, dried blackberry, spice and tobacco. It displays a spectacularly soft and velvety texture over a full-bodied approach. Redigaffi is often monolithic and monotone in its younger years, and it needs more bottle age to come into focus. This is very true for the 2021 vintage.

I met with Stefano Frascolla in Rome to taste these wines at the end of last year. He had just come off the 2023 harvest and described the difficulties farming in that vintage, which were mostly due to excessive humidity (which can of course lead to fungal diseases if one is not extremely precise). He describes 2023 as a “hands-on vintage.” He concluded harvest on October 8th last year.

96+ points Monica Larner robertparker.com