If you’re new around here, let it be known that SommSelect Editorial Director and Italian wine savant, David Lynch, is on a Sangiovese crusade: “No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop litigating my assertion that Chianti Classico is the Burgundy of Italy. I’m either being shot down by fellow Italophiles (“No way, man, it’s Barolo!”) or scoffed at by countless others who (a) believe that nothing compares to Burgundy; and (b) still cling to badly outdated Chianti Classico stereotypes.” In that same vein, Poderi Castellare di Castellina asserts itself in the glass with incredible consistency and quality: This year, they will be bottling their 50th consecutive vintage of Chianti Classico. It’s not easy to nail wines in a blind tasting, but they certainly make it easier with their quintessential Tuscan Sangiovese.