Top Scores in Luca Maroni’s Prestigious “Yearbook of the Best Italian Wines”

12 December 2021 Chimera

By Chimera

12 December 2021 In Uncategorized

We are thrilled to tell you our fantastic scores received from the prestigious Italian guide Luca Maroni in his 29th edition of L’Annuario dei Migliori Vini Italiani (The Yearbook of the Best Italian Wines) 2022.

All of our wines submitted earned top scores:

Oriente Syrah 2019 – 93 points
Rosato Maremma Toscana 2020 – 91 points
Pashà 2020 – 90 points
Suley 2020 – 90 points
Merlot 2019 – 90 points
Raffaello Sangiovese 2018 – 88 points

Why are we so proud of this?

Luca Maroni, the most respected Italian wine sensory analyst on the world wine scene, judges every year hundreds of wines for his Yearbook of the Best Italian Wines. This guide has become a Bible for experts in the sector and food and wine enthusiasts.

Here is what he has to say about our wines:

Oriente Syrah 2019

It’s crystalline enological execution gives us a great gift: First to admire, then to enjoy, the limpid, authentic, original varietal of this grape. Syrah at these levels of enological clarity opens the nose with a ringing note of flowers. An expression of intense, high aroma, with an olfactory brightness that also recall black and sour cherries. Not an overly tannic wine, but still a wine with a great concentration of tannins. Great fresh and enveloping pulp evokes the palate, outlining acidity, the smooth softness, the overall persuasiveness of its balanced and harmonious taste. Then its scent is smelled after swallowing: here the excellence of the fruit is the floral of its sparkling livery.

Concluding comments: Excellent proposals from La Chimera d’Albegna. The white Pashà and Suley 2020 are very soft, dense, sunny and yet fragrant thanks to the enological clarity. Even more olfactory, the Rosato Maremma Toscana 2020. Great extractive concentration characterizes and qualifies the reds. The balsamic, evolved Raffaello Sangiovese 2018, the soft, more vivid Merlot 2019. A great wine, the best, the Orient Syrah 2019: the sour cherry, the blackberry of the variety, shine with invincible clarity, here in the guise of vanilla splendor so pure for the irreproachable enological accomplishment. Congratulations.

Take it from the expert and try our highly reviewed wines: