The Chianti Classico Riserva Bugialla is made only in the best years and comes from the grapes of the Bugialla vineyard. The terroir of the Bugialla is rocky and yields are very low, resulting in a concentrated wine. The wine matures for 24 months in mainly new botti(25hl), followed by 12 months bottle ageing. The 2020 Chianti Classico Riserva Bugialla is a potent, brooding wine. Macerated dark cherry, licorice, leather, tobacco and smoke all flesh out over time. The 2020 saw a whopping 50 days on the skins, with malolactic fermentation in cement and then two years in 20-25 hl Slavonian oak casks. There is a bit of new oak tannin from one of the casks that needs time to integrate. This young, potent Riserva has a bright future.