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2021 Tenuta Luce Lucente Toscana 750 ml

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Drink Like a Luxury Collector for Under $30

First, he helped launch Napa into the stratosphere. Then he partnered with Baron Philippe de Rothschild to create Opus One. After that, Robert Mondavi turned his attention toward his family’s native Italy, partnering with the legendary Frescobaldi family to create Luce della Vite.

That winery has become Italy’s Opus One, producing wines that are among the richest and most monumental in the country. Their flagship wine, Luce, has become synonymous with staggering concentration and power, racking up 98- and 97-point scores. 

Lucente, we simply see as one of the best deals in Super Tuscans, every year.

If Luce is a Napa Cabernet drinker’s Super Tuscan, Lucente is its more classically Italian younger brother. The Sangiovese and Merlot grapes hail from some of the highest slopes in Montalcino, bordering on Frescobaldi’s Castelgiocondo, home to some of the area’s finest Brunellos. The two are fermented separately and see 12 months in a mix of new and older wooden barriques, resulting in a less oaky expression than Luce.

Just as Baron Philippe had found California’s quintessential producer in Mondavi, Mondavi found the perfect partner for his Italian project in the Frescobaldi family, whose Tuscan roots go back to the 1300s. Frescobaldi family patriarch Vittorio saw a kindred spirit in the iconoclastic Mondavi—whose parents had moved from Le Marche to America in the early part of the 20th century—and so Luce della Vite was born.

With Merlot’s body and richness perfectly matched to bright Sangiovese, polished by a stay in French oak barrels, this wine sings in the glass and with food on the table. It shows the kind of critically acclaimed Tuscan pedigree that you usually find in wines that top $100.