Product Description
This Bolgheri beauty blends 70% Cabernet Sauvignon with 30% Cabernet Franc for a wine that's equal parts sophistication and fun. Expect a deep garnet pour that opens with violet and cassis notes, followed by whispers of licorice, black pepper spice, and aromatic herbs. The palate delivers a sleek, intense experience—think elegant herbal notes dancing with cassis and a hint of pepper, all wrapped up with hints of incense, dried rose, clove, and cedar. A wine that knows how to make an entrance and keeps the conversation going.
Expert Reviews
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Wine AdvocateThe Ca' Marcanda estate does not make a Bolgheri Superiore, although this bottle would qualify as such. The 2018 Bolgheri Rosso Camarcanda is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, and you definitely feel those full-throttle varietal aromas with big intensity and clarity. Spicy greenness comes forward as grilled rosemary and lavender essence, but the wine boasts nice depth and dimension, and enough textual richness to smooth it all out. This was a slightly cooler vintage with some sporadic rain showers throughout the summer. These conditions might explain the sharper side of those Cabernet aromas. As the wine moves over the palate, it reveals more substantial aromas of black fruit, spice and baker's chocolate. This vintage is slightly thinner than the hot 2017 expression before it and the classic 2016. However, this wine should certainly play forward positively in terms of its aging potential.
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Wine SpectatorDense and fluid at once, this red delivers plum, black cherry, licorice, olive, bay leaf and spice flavors. Ripe and balanced, with a lingering, spicy, tobacco-tinged aftertaste. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2023 through 2033. 1,500 cases made, 225 cases imported