Tenuta Luce 2020, Tuscany, 75cl grand cru farmed by the Fayard family

farmed by the Fayard family on the coast at La Londe-les-Maures since 1977

Central Otago

rather than blending in red wine

The weight and the warmth of the wood make it as much a thing to display as to pour from

It's the bottle almost everyone recognises and almost everyone enjoys - the safe choice that still feels generous

Tenuta Luce 2020, Tuscany, 75cl grand cru farmed by the Fayard familyLuce was born in 1993 from an unlikely partnership the Frescobaldi family of Tuscany and Robert Mondavi of California with one idea: to be the first Montalcino wine to blend Sangiovese and Merlot in equal measure. Frescobaldi runs it outright now, and three decades on Luce remains the benchmark for that union, the structure and lift of Sangiovese meeting the roundness and weight of Merlot. The vineyards sit on the south west facing slopes above