Tenute del Cabreo 'Cabreo Il Borgo' Toscana IGT

2015 Vintage

Awarded: 2018

The TEXSOM International Wine Awards

Silver

2013 Vintage

Awarded: 2017

2008 Vintage

Awarded: 2012

2007 Vintage

Awarded: 2010

Gold

2006 Vintage

Awarded: 2009

Wine Spectator Top 100 #96

2006 Vintage

Awarded: 2008

Wine Spectator Top 100

San Francisco International Wine Competition

2001 Vintage

Awarded: 2007

Korea Wine Challenge

Silver

2001 Vintage

Awarded: 2006

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About the Wine

Region

Toscana IGT

Toscana IGT is the most popular and famous of Italy's Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT) titles. It encapsulates the entire region, with the Toscana IGT label permitted on wine produced in...

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Style

Red - Bold and Structured

A typically New World style of wine characterized by ripe fruit, firm tannins and massive popularity. Characteristics Forest floor, tannin, acidity, blackcurrant, mint, eucalyptus. Key...

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Grape Variety / Blend

Cabernet - Sangiovese

In the 1960s and 1970s, enterprising producers from Tuscany began to experiment with the Bordeaux varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc (as well as Merlot), blending it with the...

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Food Pairing

Beef and Venison

The general rule with all red meat is the leaner the meat, the lighter the wine – this also applies to different cuts of beef or steak, although side dishes and sauces also have to be...

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Critics Scores & Reviews

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All vintages

91 / 100

111 scores

95 - 100

90 - 94

85 - 89

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93 / 100 Falstaff

2020 Vintage Tasted: Feb 2024

Rich ruby with a fine garnet sheen. Appealing nose with animating fruit of ripe cherries and blackberries, fine savoury notes in the background. Spreads out richly on the palate, lots of ripe, dark berryish fruit, opens up with full-bodied tannins, sweet texture, unfortunately a clear wood overhang in the finish.

93 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2019 Vintage Tasted: Dec 2023

Dark fruit and chocolate, then damp soil, leaves and underbrush swirl together on the nose with a final smoky hint of campfire. Earth and heat remain on the palate, with more chocolaty and even nutty undertones, girded by solid but refined tannins.

94 / 100 Falstaff

2019 Vintage Tasted: Oct 2023

Intense ruby red with subtle brightening on the rim. The nose is markedly complex, ripe cherry fruit, herbs as well as a touch of leather. Harmonious on the palate, silky tannins and fresh acidity, expressive, builds long, elegant, persistent finish.

95 / 100 Falstaff

2018 Vintage Tasted: Oct 2022

Dunkles, edles Rubinrot. In der Nase ausdrucksstark, auf dunkle Beeren, zart fleischig, satte Kirsche und satte Frucht, unterlegt von Zedernholz und einem Hauch Trüffel. Zeigt sich am Gaumen sehr präsent und ausdrucksstark, auf Preiselbeermarmelade, packend, mit viel Druck, feine salzige Noten im langen Finale.

93 / 100 Raffaele Vecchione - WinesCritic.com

2018 Vintage Tasted: Oct 2021

Maturo e deciso nel profilo principale mostra note di fragole, prugne, gerani ed asfalto bagnato. Corpo medio-pieno, tannini morbidi e succosi di ottima fattura ed un finale luminoso ed essenziale. Che bello. Bevi ora.

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89 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2017 Vintage Tasted: Jul 2021

A blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, this has aromas of roasted coffee bean, toasted oak and tobacco. The dense palate presents prune, star anise and espresso alongside close-grained tannins and the heat of evident alcohol. Drink through 2026. Kerin O’Keefe

94 / 100 Falstaff

2017 Vintage Tasted: Feb 2021

Deep ruby colour. Intricate nose with accentuated notes of ripe damson, liquorice and cardamom. Tightly-woven, hearty tannin, gripping firmly, supported by black cherries galore and a smidgen of olive on the finish.

94 / 100 Falstaff

2016 Vintage Tasted: Feb 2020

Bright ruby with a light garnet edge. Clear and intense nose, full of ripe dark cherry, blackberry and clove. Fine-meshed, well-integrated tannin, well-placed fruit, lots of blackberry, firm drive on the finish.

94 / 100 Raffaele Vecchione - WinesCritic.com

2016 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2020

Maturo al naso con note di fragole fresche, lamponi e ribes rossi. Corpo pieno, tannini soffici e perfettamente maturi ed un finale armonico e di grande piacevolezza. Bravi. Meglio dal 2020 al 2025 ed oltre.

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90 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2015 Vintage Tasted: Apr 2019

This blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon opens with subtle aromas of dark berry, cedar and baking spice. The structured palate offers dried black cherry, star anise and clove alongside polished tannins. Kerin O’Keefe

88 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2013 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2017

Made with 70% Sangiovese and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, this offers aromas of baked plum, espresso, and baking spice. The robust palate opens with black fruit, chocolate and licorice alongside gripping tannins. You'll also notice the warmth of evident alcohol on the close.

91 / 100 Falstaff

2011 Vintage Tasted: Feb 2015

Leuchtendes, sattes Rubin mit leichtem Violettanteil. Sehr duftige und intensive Nase, zeigt zunächst Noten nach Tabak, dann viel Cassis und eingelegte Kirschen. Griffiges, dichtes Tannin, umwoben von süßem Schmelz, unterstützt den Wein in der ganzen Länge, im hinteren Bereich zu den Fruchtnoten auch leicht erdige Komponenten, sehr langes, würziges Finale.

89 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2011 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2015

A robust blend ofSangiovese andCabernet Sauvignon, this offers aromas of baked plum, mocha, menthol and oak-driven spice. The hearty palate initially opens with black fruit, chocolate, licorice and dried herb flavors but the heat of evident alcohol dominates the finish and the close.

95 / 100 Doctorwine

1988 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

Orange. Perhaps because it aged in a jeroboam (double magnum) but it seems to have a long life ahead of it. There are still nice floral notes, pronounced whiffs of cacao and tobacco. The nose is broad, a spectrum of a thousand scents that chase each other, from cherry to tar, from ripe fruit to oriental spice. A machine-gun strafe of aromas, sandalwood, incense, face powder, green pepper, licorice, sweet spice. Laugh lines do not make one older only more seductive, the charm of maturity. The flavor is also great, balanced and long, bold and alluring.

94 / 100 Doctorwine

2001 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

A full, garnet color. The aroma is a seductive array of scents. The bouquet opens with a nice fruit and violet floral notes. These are followed by balsamic accents of eucalyptus and spice, cinchona, tobacco and pepper in an enthusiastic progression highlighted by blood nuances, the common thread uniting all vintages. The aroma is 'rotund', sweeter than the others. The taste is very mineral, elegant the way flourishes. The tannins are creamy yet crunchy, full, which perfectly balances the acidity.

92 / 100 Doctorwine

1990 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

A dark orange color. The aroma is very rusty, rust and blood. There are light nuances of honey, beeswax and evolved notes. The finish is a little salty with a ouch of tomato paste. The flavor has an evolved tannic taste, a slightly flat acidity, with a return of balsamic mint and licorice scents. This wine has already entered into its decline.

91 / 100 Doctorwine

1995 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

Garnet with an orange edge. This seems younger than the 1997. The aroma is chameleon-like, expressionistic. Wilted rose, licorice, incense and ash, Mediterranean brush, humus and juniper berries. This is followed by dried leaves, balsamic notes and a vegetal veil of wild fennel. Elegant and poignant. The flavor is savory and mineral, with spicy and balsamic returns, still fruity. This is tasty and seductive, very good and with a long life. Here the Sangiovese has center stage.

90 / 100 Doctorwine

2006 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

A transparent garnet color. The aroma is salty with vegetal nuances of aromatic herbs, especially thyme. It needs to breath in the glass before it can open and soften up. This allows in a touch of coffee to give chase to sweeter notes, mentholated ones, of pipe tobacco, almost sealing wax. The taste has an acidic streak that tears through rotund and wrapping tannins while in the aftertaste return fruity and balsamic scents. The only defect: a tad too much alcohol.

88 / 100 Doctorwine

1997 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

Garnet with an orange edge. The nose is that of a deep breath in a forest of eucalyptus and pine trees. It is very balsamic and its ripe fruit is still present and blends in with the notes of cola, humus, dark cacao, face powder, dark tobacco, tea and oleander. While the bouquet was harmonious the flavor is less exciting because of its acidity, light body, evolved notes and a slightly warm finish. To be drunk now or never.

88 / 100 Doctorwine

1999 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

Garnet. The opulent aroma overflows with ripe fruit, a potpourri of flowers, while balsamic notes hold in check the fruit and floral explosion. Then darker scents emerge, of underbrush and bark, slight vegetal notes and mushroom. The excellence of the bouquet, however, is not mirrored in the taste. The acidity is a bit biting, not well upheld by a body that is too thin. It closes with a slightly smoky note.

84 / 100 Doctorwine

2008 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

The color is a compact and luminous ruby, while the nose has a fruity beginning with black cherry and blackberry and some slightly lactic notes. The bouquet then shifts darker tones of humus and earth, spice, slight whiffs of tobacco, ash and iron that chase distinct vegetal and balsamic nuances. The flavor is lively and savory. It enters with an energetic whiplash of acidity, perhaps too bold but sufficiently upheld by its extracts, a nice complexity. The tannins are elegant, not invasive, already delicate without any bitterness.

83 / 100 Doctorwine

1983 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013

Brick color. The aroma is of ash and smoke, dried flowers and balsamic nuances. To the taste there are still traces of the tannins as well as the remains of the acidity, even if dulled. It's a great 'old gentleman' who has already expressed all his rich personality but does not have the charm of the 1988.

90 / 100 Falstaff

2008 Vintage Tasted: Feb 2012

Sattes dunkles Rubin. Enorm intensive Nase, nach Holunderbeeren und dunklen Johannisbeeren, eine wahre Fruchtbombe. Am Gaumen sehr präzise, öffnet sich mit griffigem, feinkörnigem Tannin, salzig und tiefgründig, lange.