2006 Badia a Coltibuono Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG, Tuscany, Italy 750ml

This is a special anniversary edition released ten years after the harvest. The 2006 Chianti Classico Riserva (90% Sangiovese and 10% Canaiolo) offers a pretty assembly of tertiary aromas with elegant ash, smoke, dry tobacco and powdered licorice. There is some dried fruit here with plums and figs in the distant background. This wine is at an interesting point in its evolution. There is just enough fruit on the inside to prevent the wine from dating itself. Its evolved texture is silky and tight.