Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai Vineyards Alain Graillot is best known

Alain Graillot is best known in the Northern Rhone for his excellent Crozes-Hermitage wines

Give it good decant before drinking

Such a lovely savoury nose full of whole bunches of small red berry fruit

This is a wine with intense notes of violets

Medium-to full-bodied

Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai Vineyards Alain Graillot is best knownA much more serious proposition than the regular Chianti. It is made out of the best grapes from low yielding, stony vineyards planted in the 1970s; the fruit is dark and dense, the tannins fine and chocolatey. It has balance and energy, and a little new wood adds to the complex spice notes on the very long finish.