Jay Kline

9.0

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of dinner. No formal notes due to the setting. This bottle of the 2024 “Raphael” is certainly a more wild expression of Cesanese del Piglio. It’s bright and fresh with good structure and worked well with both the Rigatoni alla Carbonara and Romanesco. I can dig it. Drink now. — 2 days ago

Clay Bullwinkel

9.2

Excellent! — 3 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

9.0

Fruit driven, vibrant even in its age. Farmy with high acid. Holds well. Recommended. — 5 years ago

Andrew Mecoli

8.9

First bottling for this Cesanese del Piglio producer, and it’s very interesting. Still young and a bit harsh on the tannins, but the style is lean and elegant. Not a typical Cesanese. Notes of Dolcetto-like dark fruit, crossed with floral Nebbiolo elements. — 6 years ago

David Gillespie

9.0

Loads of fresh fruit, acid and funky farm stylings. Loved it. — 7 years ago

Nick Piccone

9.5

Bottle 330 of 400 produced - so well balanced and structured, intense and complex — 8 years ago

with Sarah

Damian

9.2

Delicious, earthy notes with fruit present. Positively surprised, hard to get in the us. — 6 months ago

Erik Longabardi

9.4

Give it some air and wow! — a year ago

Nick Piccone

9.2

Funky, fun and super tasty. Earthy, red berry, and minerals — 3 years ago

with Sarah

Pooneet K

9.1

Very nice fresh Cesanese wine. Enjoyed with focaccia, burrata, amatriciana, gricia, and suckling pig in rome. — 4 years ago

Chris Wheaton

9.0

Eye opening Cesanese from 2016. Full bodied with burnished plum notes and silky tannins. — 5 years ago

Molly Ringe

General Manager Skillet Diner

10

when i first opened this, it was so tight. Left it a day and OMG! exotic woods and dried wild huckleberries, wild fennel, hints of zatar - wild mountain herbs. Super balanced!! — 7 years ago

Chris Shultz

9.3

Big cherries and slight alcohol on the nose that comes off as flowers on the palate, then, with air, the nose opens to figs, plums, blackberries, brown sugar. The cherries are super sweet, and there's light spice, fennel, nutmeg, and light leather on the palate, and a cherry skin or overripe fruit, barnyardy-savory bitter edge on the finish that I am very happy about. Some mouth-coating tannins on here, which soften, but certainly do not go away, the tannins give it structure the way that minerals do elsewhere. I don't think they take from this nimble wine, and they give it a character of its own: rustic and highly fragrant. — 7 years ago

DeLinda Goodman

9.5

Wow! A Roman favorite in Rome! — 7 months ago

Carlo Maria Rossotto

9.6

Very high marks for the wine of the family of my friend Enrico Berucci! — 7 months ago

Philip Patston

9.1

Superb. A flavor bomb but very refined at the same time. — 10 months ago

Ryan Kravitz

10

Oh my thoughts this was a gorgeous red. Tangy smell with a tannic taste smell and taste did not coordinate which made this wine a total experience loved this with l’amitriciana — 3 years ago

Ericsson

9.2

Favorite wine of the night. Indigenous grape from Lazio (Rome), great balance with a meaty, chewy tasty finish. Cheers. — 5 years ago

Joel Roskind

9.4

Csw. Cesanese — 6 years ago

with Susan

Matthew Cohen

8.9

Nice fruit. Very Good. Hint of va. Needs a decant. — 8 years ago