The organic 2020 Chianti Classico Riserva Novecento is 95% Sangiovese with tiny parts of Canaiolo and Colorino in the blend. Fermentation is in cement tulip-shaped vessels, and the wine ages in large French oak casks for 24 months. Winemaking is impeccable at Dievole, and this Riserva produces silky elegance and a softly streamlined style that is delightful to drink. This inherently food-friendly red offers bright cherry, blood orange and blue flower perfumes. Production is an ample 60,000 bottles, and you get a good deal with this bottle.

The organic Dievole 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva Novecento is slow to open and is neutral on first nose. It does eventually show some dark fruit and wild cherry that is nicely intermingled with spice, leather and tar. There is a warm or savory quality to this wine with autumn leaf and forest floor. But it is sluggish to start, and waiting a year or two should help. The blend is 95% Sangiovese, 3% Canaiolo and 2% Colorino. This release celebrates the 30th vintage of this wine, and 30,000 bottles were made.

The 2016 Chianti Classico Riserva Novecento takes the intensity and the level of sophistication up an important step if you have just tasted the entry-level Chianti Classico immediately before this wine (as I did). This wine is brooding and multifaceted with layers of dark fruit, spice, tar and smoke. There is a very deep quality here too that reminds me of earth or crushed black rocks. This beautiful vintage offers great texture that is velvety and rich without ever feeling heavy or slow. The finish is very long and crisp. It would be great with braised meats. The blend is 95% Sangiovese, 3% Canaiolo and 2% Colorino, fermented in cement and later aged in oak for 17 months. Some 30,000 bottles were made.

Showing broad shoulders and powerful intensity, the 2015 Chianti Classico Riserva Novecento is an elegant and authentic wine that would pair with grilled steak or pasta topped with wild boar sauce. This wine is authentically Tuscan down to its inner core. The blend is 95% Sangiovese with 3% Canaiolo and 2% Colorino. It offers characteristic flavors of wild cherry, rose hip, moist garden herb and chewing tobacco. You also get that snappy freshness of the grapes from a cool and classic vintage such as this. Bottle production is 30,000 units strong. I liked this Riserva a bit more than Dievole's Chianti Classico Gran Selezione from the same vintage.

Dievole has outmaneuvered and seemingly outsmarted the difficult 2014 growing season. The 2014 Chianti Classico Riserva Novecento is a rich and nicely concentrated wine that shows substantial density without feeling heavy. In fact, the wine is mid-weight in essence, although it offers enough concentration and richness to keep the palate satiated and fulfilled. The finish is elegant and silky. The blend is 95% Sangiovese, 3% Canaiolo and 2% Colorino.