A dark, brooding style, this delivers black cherry, blackberry and plum fruit shaded by iron and earth accents. Solidly built, with all the elements in proportion. Fine, lingering finish. Best from 2022 through 2035.

Dark cherry, plum, smoke, tobacco, leather and licorice all run through the 2015 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Monna Lisa. Powerful and virile, with a real sense of structural underpinning, the 2015 could use another few years in bottle to fully come together.