La Massa Toscana 2018

93 pts James Suckling:
Notes of blueberries, blackberries, porcini and nutmeg. It’s full-bodied with fine tannins. Balanced with a fleshy texture. Round and velvety. Long, flavorful finish. Fine and fresh at the end. Drink or hold.

93 pts Wine Advocate:
A blend of mostly Sangiovese with smaller parts Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and a touch of Alicante Bouschet, the Fattoria la Massa 2018 La Massa is a textured and softly pliable wine that shows gorgeous color saturation and a panoramic bouquet with black fruit, dried cherry, plum, spice and sweet tobacco. This vintage offered moments of heat and moments of coolness, and the whole approach is balanced quite nicely in this bottle. I give it a solid 10-year drinking window, and you get great value.

91 pts Decanter:
Fresh nose of minty cassis, summer pudding and mulberry with smoky undertones. Inviting and vibrant, mellow on the palate.


La Massa is made up of grapes from 27 hectares of vineyards, all with southern exposure in the Golden Basin of Panzano. The vineyards are planted at 360 meters above sea level. The soil is a mixture of scaly clay and galestro (loose marl and limestone). The soils fall into three distinct geological formations; an undifferentiated complex of clayey schist and calcareous marl, a formation of scaly yellow and grey marl (galestro) and a third segment of large blocks or layers enclosed in a clayey matrix. The wine is aged in 20 percent new French and 80 percent one-year-old French oak barrels for 12 months.

Giampaolo Matta 從小生長在拿坡里，原本要接手家族所經營的皮革事業。但是 Giampaolo 是一個有著自我想法的人，他喜愛葡萄酒。當 90年代他來到 Tuscany 觀光，他突然發現這裡是他心儀已久的地方---他找到了他的新家。

雄心萬丈的 Giampaolo Motta 於是留在 Tuscany，買下位於 Panzano in Chicnti 地區的酒莊，這裡離佛羅倫斯和 Siena 約有30到 40分鐘的車程。Motta 在剛開始前幾年不斷的尋覓著自己的風格，之後很快的確立了要栽種 Sangiovese、Merlot 和 Cabernet Sauvignon，完全不理會 Chianti Classico DOCG 法令的枷鎖，釀製波爾多風格的葡萄酒。

如今 Giampaolo 有顧問Carlo Ferrini 從旁協助，旗艦酒 Giorgio Primo 於 1993年到 2001年連續獲頒 Gambero Rosso 的最高等級 Tre Bicchieri (三杯子)獎項。此外，更是受到 Robert Parker 和 Wine Spectator 等全球酒評家高度的評價。