The 2021 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Buiano is a new wine in this range. Rich, deep and explosive, the 2021 possesses tremendous depth and tons of structural intensity to match. Red fruit, gravel, spice, mint and white pepper race across the palate, leading into a huge, mineral-drenched finish. The Buiano emerges from parcels Antinori purchased from Capraia in 2017. It spent 17 months in 500-liter tonneaux.
96 points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous (Jul 2024)
The 2021 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Buiano, with fruit from the large and central Castellina UGA, is one of three new wines to be released by Marchesi Antinori. It is also the most mercurial of the bunch, starting off on a slightly closed note but evolving steadily and slowly in the glass to reveal a wine of distinct backbone and character. Ultimately, this is a wine of greater fruit weight and textural heft with red fruit ripeness and an interesting intersection of tangy licorice. The wine is generous and giving to the palate, thanks to its many layers of soft fruit and its chalky tannins. Production is now 5,000 bottles, but this program is expected to grow to about 20,000 bottles made annually.
95 points, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (Oct 2024)
This is a new single-vineyard Chianti Classico from a high vineyard in Castellina at 350 meters. It shows very black fruit with oysters and iodine, as well as mussel shells. Full and very rich with some mushroom and bark. Big wine, but remains fresh. Drink or hold.
95 points, James Suckling (Aug 2024)
From the lower, western slopes of Castellina, Buiano blends two nearby but distinct parcels – one on clay, the other on predominantly sandy soil. The first brings freshness and the second more structure and power, according to Antinori’s technical director Dora Pacciani. Ageing is in 500-litre new French oak barrels. It is bigger boned but brilliantly balanced and packs in plenty of flavour. Flint, beeswax and cinnamon weave through wild red berries. As it opens, perfumed violets poke through. Ample, almost opulent fruit is tightly girdled by velvety tannins. Sweet wood nuances are explicit but well embedded. Tons of energy and persistence here.
95 points, Michaela Morris, Decanter (Apr 2025)
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