AND HERE ARE THE… “FANTASTIC 4”! MONFORTINO BAROLO, BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO CERBAIOLO (SALVIONI), BOLGHERI SASSICAIA, MANDURIA ES OF PRIMITIVE GIANFRANCO FINO. ALL THE GUIDES AGREE - GAMBERO ROSSO, AIS, L’ESPRESSO, VERONELLI AND SLOW FOOD

Giacomo Conterno’s Barolo Monfortino Riserva 2004, La Cerbaiola-Salvioni’s 2006 Brunello di Montalcino, San Guido Estate’s Bolgheri Sassicaia 2008 and Gianfranco Fino’s Primitivo di Mandria Es 2009: these are the “Fantastic Four” wines that the most famous wine guides - L’Espresso, Gambero Rosso, Ais-Bibenda (association of Italian sommeliers), Veronelli and Slow Food awarded top marks in their 2012 editions. These guides analyze the state of Italian winemaking every year.
According to www.winenews.it, one of the most popular websites in the world of Italian wine, it is a consistent picture that goes beyond comments regarding the various tasting teams’ choices.
The state of the art of Italian wine will probably be the object of discussion more than ever this year, since two unanimously considered elective territories were rewarded, the Langhe in Piedmont and Montalcino in Tuscany, together with the inventiveness of the so-called Super Tuscans and a very interesting variation of the great potential of southern Italian winemaking. The result is simply the merging of the lists of the best, prepared by the 2012 guides editions, without getting into the specific details of evaluation methods, adopted by several tasters - for Wines of Italy Gambero Rosso, the “Three Glasses”; for Wines of Italy L’Espresso “Five Bottles”; for “I Vini di Veronelli”, “Three Stars”; for “Duemilavini” AIS / Bibenda, ”The Five Bunches”; for Slow Food “Slow Wine”, “The Great Wines” - in other words, the best of the best in taste.