Bibenda 2027
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Kerin O’Keefe’s 2025 Top 100
Kerin O’Keefe’s 2025 Top 100: nice awards for Massolino, Paltrinieri and Patrizia Cencioni.
Their Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda, Lambrusco Radice and Brunello Ofelio are in the 2025 TOP 100 wines. Congratulations!
#14 of 2025: Massolino’s Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda 2019 with 98 Points
"The impressive 2019 Vigna Rionda Riserva from Massolino captivates with its combination of structure, intensity and elegance. It opens with classic Barolo aromas of red berry, wild rose, dark spice, leather and a balsamic whiff of camphor that on the composed, full-bodied palate segue into more defined sensations of crushed raspberry, cranberry, licorice and tobacco. Showing the nuance of this extraordinary vintage, it’s still youthfully austere, with a backbone of firm, fine-grained tannins and vibrant acidity that lends youthful tension. This is one I’d love to try again in ten years or so. Drink 2034–2049"
Kerin O'Keefe
#61 of 2025
Patrizia Cencioni’s Brunello di Montalcino Ofelio 2021 with 96 Points
"The Patrizia Cencioni 2021 Brunello Ofelio is a stunning wine. It opens with heady scents of sandalwood, underbrush, lavender, Mediterranean scrub, new leather and cedar. Picking up where the nose leaves off, the full-bodied, focused palate delivers ripe red plum, black cherry, licorice and vanilla set against firm, fine-grained tannins and bright acidity. Still quite young and primary, this promises great aging potential so give it time to fully develop. Drink 2033–2046."
Kerin O'Keefe
#94 of 2025: Paltrinieri’s Lambrusco di Sorbara Radice 2024 with 94 Points
"The 2024 Radice, a benchmark wine in the denomination along with its sibling Leclisse, opens with delicately enticing aromas of small red berry, violet, lavender, citrus and wild herb. Showing great racy tension, the palate is bone-dry and savory, featuring pomegranate, cranberry, blood orange and saline notes. Made with the ancestral method of bottling the wine while still on its lees, as you get toward the bottom of the bottle, you’ll also find yeasty flavors recalling brioche. Bright acidity and a fine fizz provide energy and finesse."
Kerin O'Keefe
Slow Wine: La Guida 2026
Slow Wine – La Guida 2026: all the winners of Best Buy, Moneta, Bottle, Chiocciola and Novità are published.
BEST BUY – TOP WINE
The “Best Buy” is the symbol given to Top Wines that have a very good price compared to their denomination or reference type.
WINNERS among our associated producers
Cantina LaSelva
Morellino di Scansano Riserva
Colli dell’Uccellina 2022
Palazzone
Orvieto Classico Superiore
Campo del Guardiano 2022
LA MONETA
The “Moneta” is the symbol assigned to wineries whose wines, presented for tasting, have expressed excellent quality and an optimal quality-to-price ratio.”
WINNER among our associated producers
LA BOTTIGLIA
The Bottle is the symbol assigned to wineries whose wines, presented for tasting, have expressed excellent quality.”
WINNERS among our associated producers
LA CHIOCCIOLA
A mark of excellence from the Slow Food, assigned to wineries for the way they interpret values (organoleptic, territorial, and environmental) in harmony with the Slow Food philosophy, combined with excellent quality. A Snail’s wines also meet the criterion of a good quality-to-price ratio, taking into account when and where they were produced.”
WINNER among our associated producers
NOVITA’
The novità (new entry) symbol is assigned to Wineries not reviewed in the previous edition of the guide.
WINNER among our associated producers
Falstaff’s Wein Guide Italien 2023
Falstaff published the ‘Wein Guide Italien 2023.’ Completely dedicated to Italian wines. In this guide are more than 400 wine producers described and awarded and also some of our associated producers are mentioned.
Continue readingDecanter World Wine Awards 2022
The Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 are recently published. There are some awards received by associated producers of Enoteca Nederland.
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