Vintage 1978
The 1978 wine vintage in Italy was a breathtaking, monumental masterpiece, universally ranked alongside 1971 and 1990 as one of the absolute greatest Italian harvests of the 20th century. A delayed spring led to an exceptionally long, slow growing season, which was saved by a miracle late summer and a flawless, sun-drenched autumn that allowed late-ripening grapes to reach unprecedented levels of perfect phenolic maturity and sugar concentrati...