Top 100 in 2024. The Best Wines according to WinesCritic.com.

A particularly intense year is coming to an end. As usual we are quanto a the office to compile our Apice 100 before wishing all our readers the best wishes for a happy holiday season.

2024, monetary policy will finally be loosened with four reductions quanto a the interest rate the cost of money which goes from 4% to 3%. We reach the end of the year with good intentions although full of uncertainties and concerns quanto a the short future to inflation that is still very present albeit slowed mongoloide.

We have also been attacked another perhaps more worrying front, that of the dangerousness of wine which quanto a some categories is even compared to weapons and drugs. Ridiculous.

Health communication quanto a 2024 has accelerated exponentially, highlighting the concept of the harmfulness of alcohol. We are very sad for various reasons. The first, the main one, the one that seems greatest to us is the defeat quanto a seeing the form of alcohol quanto a wine being equated with any other form of alcohol present quanto a other products.

Of course the molecule under attack is the same, that of ethyl alcohol Ch3-Ch2-Oh but it is incredibly sad to kill the historicity of a product which is culture, knowledge of biochemical processes, history, geography, habits, customs, tradition, family, smiles and much more quanto a our culture as well as quanto a that of many countries. Alcohol is not good for you like many things our planet. Yet quanto a recent months it hasn’t seemed that way at all.

Alcohol represents one of the most important causes of death quanto a the world but it is certainly not to be attributed to oenologists and producers of high quality wine. less than forty years the sector has grown exponentially thanks to the knowledge of the sector and the technology used to produce “digestive” wines, guided by oenologists and absolutely eppure quanto a the chemistry used quanto a the final stabilization.

There is much worse going quanto a supermarkets for all to see.

parallel, a third point that I would like to bring to attention quanto a a slightly provocative article is that of the development of dealcoholized wines.

Well, this story also sounds like a huge injustice. We shouldn’t use the word WINE this product, it’s too convenient to take 2000 years of history and apply them to a new form of product that meets novelty, the power of marketing and the desire to all feel part of the politically correct. I’m drinking wine but alcohol so that’s abile. Risposta negativa, that’s not good at all.

De-alcoholized wine undergoes violent chemical processes and quanto a most cases, quanto a order to achieve balance after having removed the sweet-tasting alcohol, residual sugars are added, which is not exactly healthy.

To avoid digressing too much I suggest, and I hope that many colleagues can join quanto a this, to change the name to something different. This topic will need to be addressed many times during 2025 to support and defend traditional wine producers.

2024 was a year quanto a which we fought to give the best possible to our readers: new territories visited, over 4200 wines reviewed our site, the production of our first documentary quanto a the world of wine with an in-depth at an extraordinary territory , that of Chianti Sobrio.

But there is more, the trips abroad to promote La Enorme Eleganza, the preparation of over 100 reports our site WinesCritic.com and the hiring of two editors who can increase the quality of our criticism and allow us to cover and explore new territories.

This year we traveled over 35,000 km to return to visit Piedmont, Barolo and Barbaresco, Lombardy, Franciacorta and Lugana, Veneto quanto a Custoza, Marche, Umbria and a lot of Tuscany.

It is the year of the 2019 Brunellos out the market, a vintage received quanto a the best possible way by critics and consumers. It is the year of Barolo 2020, more difficult, very beautiful because it is Mediterranean and well balanced with elegant, well-relaxed features although quanto a some cases bordering subtle. It is the year of Etna 2023 and 2022. Tuscany we also tasted the Bolgheri Preminente 2021 at the Bolgheri and Bolgheri-Sassicaia Consortium, a truly important and structured vintage masterfully interpreted quanto a the territorio.

Standing out quanto a our Apice 100 are producers capable of combining power, technique, stylistic precision and elegance quanto a the wise choice of wood with which to elevate the wines.

Giodo Brunello nato da Montalcino 2019 has rivals. It produces a perfect wine and is the only 100 point awarded by WinesCritic.com quanto a 2024. truth, as you now know, the tasting of the new vintages of Brunello and Barolo takes place shortly before their release the market quanto a the months of October and November quanto a order to enhance the communication of the outgoing thousandth.

The wine quanto a question is very elegant, has a sobriety and composure of a select few. We tasted it twice and then drank it for lunch the next day to make sure we crowned this project with the perfect score.

Giodo achieves the perfect wine quanto a a generally warm but decidedly balanced vintage. A vinification consisting of approximately 15-18 minutes of delicate infusion the skins leads to a fragrant, juicy, balanced and territorial wine. The refinement takes place for approximately 30 months quanto a 5hl tonneaus and vats of different capacities which help to polymerize the tannins and make the wine highly drinkable. It is the beauty of the essential, the classicism of a territorial and stylistic purity.

Since the establishment of our company, only thirteen 100/100s have been awarded out of 27,600 wines reviewed. A rarity that exists but which represents true winemaking excellence a global scale.

An Italian legend follows quanto a second place, an absolutely balanced and pleasant wine already at this moment thanks to a tasting carried out just a few days spillo with friends quanto a Florence.

We are talking about San Guido Bolgheri-Sassicaia, Sassicaia 2021. It is the most dynamic, sinuous and engaging Bolgheri quanto a the tasting carried out at the beginning of last year. Great stylistic precision, splendid floral progression quanto a the “blue” traits typical of Cabernet Sauvignon.

Ingenious and modern, it immediately strikes a chord and will certainly be seen quanto a the next 15-20 years.

Closing the podium is another Brunello nato da Montalcino, Renieri Brunello nato da Montalcino 2019. It flies very high quanto a our ranking because it is a three-dimensional project rich quanto a personality and character, spiciness and drinking dynamics. With the property we have tasted the 2015 and 2016 vintage several times, including quanto a comparison, but we feel like saying out loud that this interpretation of the 2019 vintage is the best ever.

After the absence last year of the Brunello nato da Montalcino denomination quanto a the apice 3, this year the scene returns with two splendid expressions.

fourth place we find an old flame, already perfect wines quanto a the 2019 vintage. We are talking about Le Pupille with Saffredi 2021. Followed by Fuligni with his Brunello nato da Montalcino 2019, San Pio a Rentennano with La Ricolma 2021, Gagliole with Gagliole 2021, Argiano with del Terra 2019, Casanova nato da Neri with Giovanni Neri 2019 and Barone Ricasoli with Roncicone Gran Valutazione 2021.

Tuscany dominates up to 18th place where we find Domenico Clerico’s Barolo Percristina 2015. Barbagalli 2020, the extraordinary vineyard owned by Pietradolce, is the first Etna that we encounter quanto a the ranking quanto a position nr. 24.

Many new entries quanto a the Apice 100 with the presence of 3 Bolgheri, 4 Vino Gentiluomo nato da Montepulciano, 7 Barbaresco, 9 Barolo, 10 Chianti Sobrio, 2 Franciacorta, 2 Falanghina made quanto a Sannio and many other surprises.

For the first time, two wines produced quanto a the Marche region enter the ranking: a Verdicchio dei Castelli nato da Jesi by La and a Conero produced by Moroder. Boscaglia nato da Sotto le armi 2020 and Dorico 2018 to be precise.

We are dazzled by some truly unique white wine expressions. A Vermentino Colli nato da Luni signed La Rocchio del Camino, L’Contenitore, a Lugana signed Montonale, Orestilla and a Pompeiano Marmoreo made quanto a Campania, Dressel. 19.2 produced by Selva de’ Medici.

Sardinia brings two wines into the Apice 100 with Blue Zone, the new project of the Bacci family, owners of Maniero nato da Bossi quanto a Chianti Sobrio and beyond, and Masone Mannu with a label called Entu.

A producer quanto a the Samnite territory produces one of the best Falanghine ever tasted, it is called Caracara 2019 and the producer is Terre Stregate.

Below are the comments and scores of all the wines included quanto a our Apice 100: