“The 2014 Malvasia del Lazio from Antonio Pulcini’s prized Colle Gaio vineyard, in the volcanic hills south of Rome, is outstanding. The wine offers up superb aromatic complexity in its bouquet of lemon peel, marmalade, a touch of menthol, salty soil tones and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a superb core of fruit, fine mineral undertow, a lovely girdle of acidity and a long, well-balanced and nascently complex finish. This is the youngest vintage of Antonio Pulcini’s Colle Gaio that I have ever tasted, as he routinely holds his wines back in bottle in his cellars for several years before release, and it still has plenty of room to grow and evolve with further bottle age. Fine juice. (Drink between 2020-2045)”