Fontodi Vigna del Sorbo Gran Selezione Chianti Classico

Red
Italy
Chianti Classico
Sangiovese

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 18
Community notes: 392
Merchant offers: 136

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers: 85/ 100392 notes, every vintage
Market price: £48per 75 cl2022 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
Drinking window: 2016–2042peak2012 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 500 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Chianti Classico Red.

Body3.4 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.7 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, chocolate
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, balsamic, minerals
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black cherry, black fruit, dark fruit
Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, dried herbs, menthol
Floral · violet, rose petal, perfume, dried flowers, lavender

Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£38–£59GBP per 75 cl · 11 priced vintages

2011One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2016; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2012; peak, window 2016–2042
Lowest price: 2011; £38 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Vigna del Sorbo Gran Selezione Chianti Classico monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 4 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Vigna del Sorbo Gran Selezione Chianti Classico monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2022	£48	94.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2021	£48	97.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2020	£59	95.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2023
2019	£57	95.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2018	£43	96.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2017	£46	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
2016	£53	97.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2015	£50	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2014	£40	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2013	£50	93.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2011	£38	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2021

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