{"product_id":"2013-tua-rita-redigaffi-7-toscana-igt-mag-1500ml","title":"2013 Tua Rita Redigaffi #7 Toscana IGT Mag (1500ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1984 by Rita Tua and her husband, Virgilio Bisti, Tua Rita released its first vintage in 1992, and soon began receiving praise and accolades from wine enthusiasts worldwide. In just a few years, its flagship wine, Redigaffi, achieved cult-like status, receiving outstanding ratings from the trade’s most prestigious wine critics and publications. Given their small production, Tua Rita’s wines are considered among the most sought-after in Italy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReleased only in magnum, Tua Rita Redigaffi 7 is a rare, special-release of Tua Rita's flagship bottling, that draws exclusively from Parcel 7, a sub one hectare corner of the estate's original 1988 Merlot vineyard, consisting of the same fruit that shaped the legendary 2000 vintage. The 2013 bottling was created to celebrate their 20th anniversary and just 420 numbered magnums were produced, each aged a full year longer than the standard 750ml release. It is, by any measure, one of the rarest expressions to come out of the Tua Rita cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e99 points: \"There's a lot to say here, so let me start at the beginning. The 2013 Redigaffi 7 Magnum is a special-release wine, produced only in magnum to celebrate the 20th anniversary (which was in 2013) of this iconic expression of Tuscan Merlot. A precious few 420 magnums were produced, and the price tag is nothing to sneeze at. I will also say that I struggled to score this wine, and I nursed my magnum, my single sample, for as long as I could, tasting the wine blind, in a flight of peers, in different glasses and at various intervals after the bottle was open. I spent a lot of time contemplating my thoughts and impressions, and ultimately, that in itself is what convinced me to give it a two-digit score rather than a three-digit one. Awarding the perfect score is often an illumination that requires very little thought at all and if you think about it too long, you nurture a doubt, the original sin of wine tasting. However, if the next critic went with a 100-point score for this wine, I would be in absolute agreement on every intellectual level.   I also want to address the hefty price tag here, because in my almost 20 years covering Italian wine, I have never seen a new release hit the market at such an ambitious price point. To this, I say congratulations to Stefano Frascolla and his family. Very few Italian icon wines know their own worth, and I am often shocked by the value you can get from an Italian benchmark compared to one from Bordeaux or Napa. I find myself in agreement with these politics, even though it sadly means only a handful of people will have access to a wine of this magnitude.   This special Redigaffi comes from a single plot (that measures under one hectare) planted in 1988. This was Tua Rita's original Merlot vineyard and is where fruit was sourced to make the most successful editions of the wine (including the 100-point 2000 vintage). This wine ages in oak for three years (longer than the 750-milliliter Redigaffi), and the wood sees a higher level of toast. That extra spice and oak astringency is noted. The first commercial vintage of this wine was 1994, but Tua Rita is celebrating the 20th anniversary now because an experimental wine was also produced more than 20 years ago in 1993. My tasting notes are obviously very similar to my review of the 2013 regular Redigaffi, and I am impressed by the wine's generosity and its infinite complexity. The bouquet is packed tight with black fruit, spice, tar and grilled herb. There is also an imperfect point of greenness or tightness buried deep within that adds to the firmness of the tannins, both the fruit and the oak tannins. However, this magnum bottling has a long, long way to go in terms of its evolution, and I am quite sure that its aging trajectory will take it through untold waves of ups and downs. If there is one lesson I came away with as I tasted this wine over and over again, it is this: There is a lifeline here. This is a living, breathing, evolving wine of beauty and potential. Drink Date: 2022 - 2050” - Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate (8\/19)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Wine Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48129502085378,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/1419\/7817\/files\/unnamed_df2f0fe1-6451-4aa3-8fa3-a8a24dc13b38.png?v=1784143816","url":"https:\/\/thewineclub.com\/products\/2013-tua-rita-redigaffi-7-toscana-igt-mag-1500ml","provider":"The Wine Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}