2019 Bibi Graetz '20th Anniversary' Colore Toscana IGT

Bibi Graetz did not just enter the world of wine; he staged a creative coup. Born into a family of artists at the medieval Castello di Vincigliata, Bibi swapped his paintbrush for ancient vines, releasing his first vintage in 2000 with zero formal training and a total disdain for convention. Today, he isn't just a winemaker—he is a visionary iconoclast who has redefined the Italian landscape.

Colore is the absolute apex of the Bibi Graetz pyramid. It is the ultimate expression of his dream and the rarest jewel in his crown. While Testamatta is his celebrated icon, Colore is the legendary "selection of the selection," born only from the most exceptional barrels of the entire production. What began as a mythical micro-lot of 600 bottles has evolved into one of the world's most sought-after fine wines. As the legendary critic Jane Anson declared in her 100-point review, Colore is "jewel-like... so distinctive and so unlike many other Super Tuscans."

This is 100% Sangiovese taken to its most extreme and sublime form. Sourced from the oldest, most prestigious pre-phylloxera-style vineyards in Tuscany—some reaching 135 years of age—the fruit is a miracle of survival. These vines are rooted in the poorest, most punishing galestro soils of Lamole, Vincigliata, and Siena, where high altitudes and stony earth force the grapes to produce a wine of haunting intensity and "ancient taste." The dedication is obsessive: each vineyard is harvested up to eight separate times to ensure every single berry is captured at the precise moment of perfection.

2019 isn't just any Colore. It's the bottle that marks twenty years of one of Italy's most-collected winemakers, the one he calls "monumental" and where critics handed out 99 from James Suckling and 98 from Decanter, calling it "a real showstopper" and "old-vine magic." For a serious Tuscan cellar, this is a once-a-decade kind of bottle.

What makes Colore different is the fruit. The 2019 is 100% Sangiovese drawn from just three vineyard sites — Lamole and Vincigliata in the heart of Chianti Classico, plus the southern parcel of Poggio Matto in Casciano del Murlo (Siena) — with vines that are 70, 80, and 90 years old.

Each parcel is harvested up to eight separate times to catch every cluster at peak ripeness, fermented with native yeasts in open-top barriques, then aged for 20 months in new French oak. It's the kind of obsessive, parcel-by-parcel approach you usually see in grand cru Burgundy.

Wrapped in Bibi’s own hand-painted artwork, Colore is more than a Super Tuscan; it is the pinnacle of liquid art. This is the costliest, scarcest, and most profound effort from Italy’s most creative mind—a wine that doesn't just represent Tuscany, it transcends it.