Tuscan 2014s at 10 years old

the team at Le Ragnaie

A fascinating and revealing tasting organised in London recently of wines from a supposedly off vintage. See also The rewards of patience.

Purple Pagers will be familiar with our annual look at 10-year-old bordeaux. And Sarah Marsh MW has done sterling work organising various tastings of mature burgundy. The last collection of bottles she assembled in London was devoted to 2014 white burgundy.

But what about Italian wines with some serious bottle age? Our Italy editor Walter organised the excellent assessment of 2013 Brunellos we published last June but, with so many wines to review, he perforce focuses...