2008 Wine quality: 2008 was ‘good, but with a question mark over the stayability. A wet spring followed by a hot summer and then a cool wet August. The run in to the harvest had good conditions however and the fruit came in ripe and healthy. The lightly oaked annata wines were attractive, with very typical Sangiovese aroma, easy to drink immediately, albeit a little short. Stylistically a vintage made more for drinking than keeping. The riservas are a mixed bunch, with some rigid tannins [due to cool weather] which might not settle down. It is a slightly enigmatic vintage, but one to watch,’ says Kerin O’Keefe (in a Decanter article).