IGT Red

Oasi degli Angeli Kurni

Azienda Agricola Oasi degli Angeli
Grape
Montepulciano
Denomination
Marche IGT
Region
Marche
ABV
14.5%

One of Italy's cult reds: Montepulciano from vines packed up to 50,000 per hectare on the south Marche coast, air-dried and aged two years in new French oak. Dense, sweet-centred, chocolatey. UK list prices £120 to £225, when you can find it.

Best price
£112.63

2023 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery charged at checkout

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Vintages 2023 2017 2015 2006 2005

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Where to buy Oasi degli Angeli Kurni

£112.63 best price · 2 retailers in stock · checked 27 Oct 2026

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8wines Best price 2023 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery charged at checkout Code NEWCUST8J: Enter NEWCUST8J to get £8 off with the minimum wine order of £88. Valid only for new customers, until 31 Dec 2027
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£112.63 £150.17/L
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Hedonism Wines Best price 2005 · Magnum 150cl · checked 27 Oct · Free delivery
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£370.00 £246.67/L
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£450.00 £300.00/L
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Hedonism Wines Best price 2006 · Double magnum 300cl · checked 27 Oct · Free delivery
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£155.00 £206.67/L
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Tasting Notes

Chocolate, blackberry and that banana note: Kurni in the glass

Oak leads the glass: vanilla, chocolate and tobacco, over blackberry jam and prune. Then the famous banana whiff that drinkers keep noticing.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
24 August 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Montepulciano
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Vanilla, dark chocolate and tobacco come first, then blackberry jam and prune. Then a banana note, odd as that sounds, and it is a real one: drinkers pick it up again and again. The oak leads the whole nose.

BlackberryBlackberry
CherryCherry
PlumPlum
PrunePrune
TobaccoTobacco
LeatherLeather
LiquoriceLiquorice
VanillaVanilla
ChocolateChocolate
Palate

Thick, sweet-centred and velvety, with dense but ripe tannin. The grapes are air-dried and the wine passes through new French oak twice, which is where the chocolate depth comes from. Vinous's Eric Guido puts it just short of Amarone levels of concentration.

Finish

Very long and warm at 14.5%, with liquorice and a coffee-roast edge. The sweetness carries right through to the end.

Overall

A cult red that splits opinion by design, yet drinkers like every recent vintage, year after year. First made in 1997, it turned the Marche's workhorse grape into a collector's wine to cellar for years.

Drink now
Live UK pricing

Where to buy Kurni in the UK

8wines and vino.com carry the 2023 at £120.18 and £176.67 before discount, both discounted as we write; Hedonism in Mayfair holds the mature 2015 at £225. The 2022 shows out of stock at £146.

Best price · 75 cl · 2023 £112.63 at 8wines
75cl · 2023 available from 8wines £112.63, in stock
Vintages live 2023 · 2017 · 2015 Current release: 2023
Per-litre (75cl · 2023 basis) £150.17 Lowest current 75cl · 2023 offer
Last checked 27 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Other vintages and formats: 4 price lines

75cl · 2015: £225.00, 1 UK retailer

Magnum 150cl · 2005: £370.00, 1 UK retailer

Magnum 150cl · 2017: £450.00, 1 UK retailer

Double magnum 300cl · 2006: £675.00, 1 UK retailer

Wine fit score

How Kurni scores: trophy first, weeknight never

The scores below say what the price already hints: superb for cellaring and occasions, poor for everyday drinking, and divisive enough that Vinous leaves the style verdict to the taster.

Best for an occasion 9.5/10

A trophy Italian red with Tre Bicchieri in its award list: made for milestone dinners and serious gifts.

Best for cellar 9.0/10

Air-dried fruit, dense tannin and two years of new oak: a wine for decades, and the 2015 on sale proves the arc.

Best with food 6.2/10

Dense enough to overwhelm light plates; save it for steak, braises and aged cheese.

Best value 5.5/10

At £120.18 it is real money for an IGT, but the price reflects tiny yields and a double bill of new oak, not marketing.

Best intro to this style 2.5/10

An extreme, divisive style: Vinous itself says enjoying it depends on the taster. Not a first Italian red.

Best everyday bottle 0.8/10

A £120 bottle at 14.5% is nobody's Tuesday wine.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Marche in five fields

A compact view of what the Marche denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Montepulciano.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Marche
Style
IGT · Marche
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

Kurni vintages on the UK market: 2015, 2022, 2023

All three sit at 14.5%. The 2015 comes from an exceptional growing season; the 2022 leans on a plot of hundred-year-old vines.

2023 Current release
Best price
£112.63
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
14.5%
2022 Sold through
Best price
not listed
Retailers
0 in stock
ABV
14.5%

Mostly from a plot of hundred-year-old Montepulciano vines above the sea, wild-fermented and given two years in new oak barrels. Built to rest in the cellar for decades.

2017 Previous release
Best price
£450.00 magnum
Retailers
1 in stock
2015 Previous release
Best price
£225.00
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
14.5%

A warm year that Hedonism calls an exceptional growing season, ripe but balanced. Mature now, and the most mature of the three vintages listed here, at £225.

2015 Previous release
Best price
£225.00
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
14.5%

A warm year that Hedonism calls an exceptional growing season, ripe but balanced. Mature now, and the most mature of the three vintages listed here, at £225.

Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Marco Casolanetti's experiment that became a cult wine

Casolanetti is the fifth generation on 17 hectares near the southern Marche coast, and the first to bet the estate on its old Montepulciano. Kurni arrived in 1997; Vinous credits him with testing the boundaries of what is possible with the grape.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

Marche is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Marche IGT is the region-wide label, so the grapes can come from anywhere in Marche.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Azienda Agricola Oasi degli Angeli, Cupra Marittima. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Azienda Agricola Oasi degli AngeliProducer / estate
  • MontepulcianoGrape varieties
  • Marche IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2023Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 14.5% volAlcohol by volume
  • Imbottigliato all’origineEstate-bottled
05

What sits behind the price of Oasi degli Angeli Kurni

Tracked from
£112.63
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Up to five vines in every square metre, cropped to a trickle
  1. 01

    Up to five vines in every square metre, cropped to a trickle

    Cost up

    Each vine carries a tiny crop, so one bottle of Kurni swallows the fruit of far more vines than a normal Marche red.

  2. 02

    New French oak barrels, twice over

    Cost up

    D'Agata calls it 200% new oak: after a year in new barrels the wine moves into more new barrels, each bought for a single use.

  3. 03

    Air-dried grapes and slow wild fermentation

    Cost up

    Drying concentrates the juice and cuts yields again, and the wild ferment can run into the summer after harvest, tying up the cellar.

  4. 04

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    £3.33 of the price is excise duty at 2026 rates. On a £120.18 bottle the tax is a rounding error: the wine itself is the cost.

  5. 05

    Plain Marche IGT paperwork

    Cost down

    Kurni answers to no DOC ageing mandate or tasting commission; nothing in its price comes from denomination rules.

01

Up to five vines in every square metre, cropped to a trickle

Cost up

Each vine carries a tiny crop, so one bottle of Kurni swallows the fruit of far more vines than a normal Marche red.

Food Pairing

Steak, braises and aged cheese: food that can face Kurni

At 14.5%, dense and sweet-centred, Kurni flattens delicate plates. Beef and veal are its natural matches, and the pairings below stay in that weight class.

Body matching Strong match

Fiorentina steak and thick-cut beef

Kurni's density needs food with the same shoulders. Charred, rare beef meets the sweet-centred fruit head on, and the ripe tannin reads silky against the meat. Beef is the first match for it.

Try with: Fiorentina steak · Ribeye steak · Sirloin steak · More pairings →

Tannin softening Good match

Long braises and slow-cooked lamb

Hours of braising melt meat into softness, and Kurni's dense tannin dissolves into it. The chocolate and prune notes echo the dark, sticky pan juices.

Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Agnello Ragu Lucano · Venison Stew · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Aged and blue cheeses

Salty aged cheese wants sweetness and weight opposite it. Kurni brings both, the way port does for stilton, but dry. A small pour goes a long way here.

Try with: Cheese board · Blue cheese · Strong cheddar cheese · More pairings →

Sweet balance Good match

Game with fruit-led sauces

Venison or wellington with a plum or cherry reduction mirrors the wine's own jammy core. The match works on sweetness meeting sweetness, with the meat keeping it savoury.

Try with: Venison Stew · Beef wellington · Lamb shank · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Not for delicate or fiery plates

At 14.5% with heavy new oak, Kurni swamps shellfish and light seafood, and chilli heat turns its warmth harsh. With mussels or spice, pour a crisp Marche white like Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi instead.

Skip with: Cozze arraganate · Crispy chilli beef · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Cellaring Kurni: built for decades

This is a wine to last in the cellar for decades. New-oak structure and air-dried fruit slow its clock, and the 2015 on sale now shows where it goes.

Decanting
1 hour

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Serving temperature
16-18°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
High

Air-dried fruit, dense tannin and two years of new oak: a wine for decades, and the 2015 on sale proves the arc.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£112.63 for a 75cl bottle of the 2023, at 8wines, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Kurni page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 27 Oct 2026, 05:14 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from published drinker ratings, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Grapes, places and dishes linked to Kurni

Producer
Azienda Agricola Oasi degli Angeli Marche
Grapes
Montepulciano
Denomination
Marche IGT
Region
Marche Region guide

Common Questions

Kurni is a 100% Montepulciano red from Oasi degli Angeli, the 17-hectare estate of Marco Casolanetti and Eleonora Rossi near the southern Marche coast. First made in 1997, it is sold as Marche IGT and made in tiny quantities from densely planted old vines.

Scarcity and method. Vines are planted at up to 50,000 per hectare and cropped to a trickle. The grapes are air-dried, and the wine spends around two years in French barrels bought new twice over. The £120 to £225 UK price reflects all of that.

Dense and velvety: vanilla, dark chocolate and tobacco over blackberry jam, prune and a famous banana note. It is dry, but the ripeness reads sweet. Drinkers like it, vintage after vintage.

Close in weight, different in origin. Vinous's Eric Guido puts Kurni just short of Amarone levels of concentration and praises its balance. Like Amarone it uses dried grapes, but it is pure Montepulciano from the Marche, not a Veneto blend.

This is a wine to last decades in the cellar. The mature 2015 selling in London today shows the arc. There is no rush on the 2022 or 2023.

Big food: Fiorentina steak, braised beef, venison and aged cheeses. Beef and veal are its natural matches. Keep it away from delicate seafood and hot spice.

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