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A Romagna Sangiovese made the rich way. The grapes are dried before pressing, then the wine rests 10 to 12 months in French and American oak. Deep, soft and sweetly spiced at 14.5%. Vivino scores it 4.2 from 4,345 ratings.
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The producer's own sheet calls it deep ruby turning towards mauve, with ripe fruit that slides into sweet vanilla. The 460 Vivino write-ups agree and add plum, blackberry and a raisin edge from the drying.
The flavours below are the signature of Sangiovese in this style, shown here as shared reference. Tasting notes specific to this bottle are added when we research it.
Cherry
Plum
Raisin
Tobacco
Leather
Oak
Spicy
Vanilla
CocoaOne UK-shipping retailer stocks the 2023 today. The list price is £37.83 and it is on offer at £22.70. That offer sits at the top of the Romagna red band on this site, which runs from £11.90 to £23.80.
Scored on the £22.70 offer price, 14.5% alcohol, and a Romagna DOC rule that lets the wine out from 1 December after harvest. The Romagna reds here run £11.90 to £23.80.
Bright Sangiovese acidity with tannin already softened by 10 to 12 months in oak, which is the profile that handles grilled meat, ragu and hard cheese alike.
Ripe fruit, sweet vanilla and soft tannin make it an easy first Sangiovese, though the 14.5% alcohol means it drinks best with food.
The £22.70 offer sits at the top of the £11.90 to £23.80 Romagna red band here, but a Luca Maroni 99 and a James Suckling 91 for recent vintages earn it.
A DOC, not a DOCG, but the drying, the barrel time and the Leonardo label give it more presence on a table than the price suggests.
Ready to drink now and easy to like, but £22.70 and 14.5% alcohol make it a weekend roast bottle rather than a midweek one.
Romagna DOC sets no minimum ageing and this spends under a year in barrel, so it holds to about 2030 rather than rewarding a long wait.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Romagna denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Hail, strong winds and the May floods cut Romagna Sangiovese DOC from 10 million bottles to 9 million. Writing for The Drinks Business, Filippo Bartolotta judged the wine that was made high quality all the same.
Hail, strong winds and the May floods made 2023 a hard year on these hills. Romagna Sangiovese DOC dropped from 10 million bottles to 9 million. Drying the fruit evens out a patchy season, so this one drinks well now and should hold to about 2030.
Hail, strong winds and the May floods made 2023 a hard year on these hills. Romagna Sangiovese DOC dropped from 10 million bottles to 9 million. Drying the fruit evens out a patchy season, so this one drinks well now and should hold to about 2030.
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.
Drying grapes costs you volume before a drop is pressed. Add 10 to 12 months in French and American oak, then £3.33 of UK duty at 14.5% and 20% VAT on the shelf price.
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.
Romagna is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Romagna falls within Emilia Romagna, covering Bologna · Forlì-Cesena · Ravenna · Rimini.
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Made at Cantine Leonardo da Vinci, Vinci. Directions
The producer dries the fruit under monitored temperature, humidity, airflow and weight loss. Every point of water lost is wine that never gets made, and the drying room has to be run and watched for weeks.
The producer's sheet puts it in small French and American oak for 10 to 12 months. Small barrels cost far more per litre than a big cask and get replaced every few years.
The rows sit at 250 to 350 metres, on clay at Predappio and stony marl over towards Bertinoro. Hill fruit gives less wine per row and costs more to pick than the flat land down by the Adriatic.
From 1 February 2026 a 75cl bottle at 14.5% carries £3.33 of UK duty. VAT at 20% on the £22.70 offer adds £3.78, so about £7.11 of the price is tax.
Romagna Sangiovese DOC can be released from 1 December after harvest and sets no barrel minimum. The producer ages it anyway, but the rules do not tie up capital for years the way a Riserva does.
Leonardo da Vinci SpA is a union of Italian wineries selling at national and international scale, with 114 wines listed on Vivino. Buying and bottling at that volume keeps the unit cost below an estate's.
The producer serves it with grilled meat and roast potatoes. Vivino drinkers reach for beef, lamb, pasta and game. Both point the same way: this wine wants fat and salt to push against.
This is the producer's own serving suggestion, and the reason is structural. Charred fat coats the tongue and the Sangiovese acidity strips it back between bites. Drying the grapes adds the weight to stand up to the char.
Try with: Fiorentina steak · Ribeye steak · Sirloin steak · Arrosticini · Lamb chops · More pairings →
Tomato and long-simmered meat are both acidic and both savoury. The wine matches that acidity instead of fighting it, so nothing turns sour. This is the pairing the wine grew up next to in Romagna.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Agnello Ragu Lucano · Anelletti al forno · More pairings →
Protein from slow-cooked meat binds tannin and takes the edge off it. Here the barrel time has already rounded the tannin, so a braise leaves the ripe fruit and the vanilla out front.
Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Ossobuco alla Milanese · Beef stew · Lamb shank · Spezzatino di pecora · More pairings →
Salt in an aged cheese makes fruit taste sweeter and tannin taste softer. Vino.com names Parmigiano Reggiano for this bottle, and the crystalline salt of a 30-month wheel is what does the work.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Caciocavallo farcito · Frico · Fonduta · More pairings →
The sweet vanilla and warm spice in the glass meet the same notes in crackling and roast root vegetables. Earthy mushrooms link straight to the leather and cocoa that drinkers pick out on the finish.
Try with: Porchetta · Roast pork · Porcini mushroom risotto · Polenta alla Valdostana · More pairings →
At 14.5% this is a big wine, so the food has to have some weight of its own. Game is the pairing Vivino drinkers name most after beef, and its iron note sits comfortably next to dried-fruit sweetness.
Try with: Venison Stew · Roast Duck · Roast Pheasant · Coniglio alla ligure · More pairings →
Alcohol makes chilli burn hotter, and at 14.5% this bottle has plenty. At the other end, the oak and the dried-fruit weight flatten anything light. Steamed white fish and raw shellfish both lose.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Szechuan beef · Sushi · Oysters · Cozze arraganate · Pairing guide →
Vino.com reckons the balance of acidity and tannin buys it a few years in bottle. Ten to twelve months in small oak is enough to carry it there, and not enough to ask for a decade in the dark.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Romagna DOC sets no minimum ageing and this spends under a year in barrel, so it holds to about 2030 rather than rewarding a long wait.
£22.80 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighA style read drawn from the grape and the appellation, not from this exact bottle. We mark these notes openly so you know what you are reading.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur 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 · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumRipe dark fruit first, then sweet vanilla, tobacco and warm spice. The producer describes it as deep ruby turning towards mauve. On Vivino, 460 people who wrote it up put oak and vanilla at the top of the list, ahead of plum and blackberry. The tannins are soft and the finish is long.
Drying loses water from the berry and leaves the sugar and flavour behind. Cantine Leonardo da Vinci controls the temperature, the humidity, the airflow and the exact weight the grapes lose. That is what makes this fuller and rounder than an ordinary Romagna Sangiovese, and it is why the wine reaches 14.5%.
Grilled beef and roast potatoes, which is the producer's own suggestion. It also handles a slow-cooked meat ragu, braised beef, roast pork and a plate of Parmigiano Reggiano. Vivino drinkers reach for beef, lamb, pasta and game. Anything with fat and salt suits it.
It was a hard one. Hail, strong winds and the May floods hit the hills, and Romagna Sangiovese DOC fell from 10 million bottles to 9 million. The wine that was made came out well, and drying the grapes evens out a wobbly season more than most methods do.
The producer says 18C. Vino.com suggests 18 to 20C in a big glass, with half an hour in a decanter first. Half an hour is enough to open the vanilla and spice. Any colder and the fruit closes up.
Yes, at the offer price. One UK-shipping retailer lists it at £37.83 and is selling it at £22.70. The Romagna reds on this site run from £11.90 to £23.80, so the offer puts it at the top of that band and the list price puts it well above.
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