2018 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT, Tuscany, Italy (750ml) Costco It’s a stunner to drink

It’s a stunner to drink now and over the next three decades

and hints of blood orange and dried cranberries

Grapes come from Hess's Veeder Hills Vineyard atop its Mount Veeder estate

With a classic blend of late harvest Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc

solitary redwood that towers above the vineyard

2018 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT, Tuscany, Italy (750ml) Costco It’s a stunner to drinkTASTING NOTES: The 2018 Flaccianello della Pieve is another stellar wine from Fontodi. It is the richest Flaccianello ever made (in terms of dry extract), with elevated acidity that trails the 2016 by just a touch, but it does not taste like that at all. Dark cherry, violet, lavender, spice, mocha and graphite build with a bit of time in the glass. Like the Sorbo, the 2018 Flaccianello is not a wine of size, as in most previous years, but rather a