Though not one of the best-known Italian wineries internationally, Casale del Giglio is a truly remarkable one. Like very few other wine estates of the world (Uruguay’s Garzón comes to mind) it combines exceptionally good quality wines and fair, affordable prices. But these just aren’t good-buy wines that manage to be pleasant and that dot many wine columns all over the world: rather, they are very good to excellent wines that punch far beyond their weight class and that both novices and experts can agree to like and enjoy. Simply put, they are wines that transcend the “good value” category, which usually encompasses good or so-so wines the main saving grace of which is their reasonable cost. But at Casale del Giglio, the wines reach another level altogether, a rare combination of grape variety accuracy, historical relevance, reasonable and more often than not downright inexpensive cost, and a truly wondrous regularity vintage after vintage that is simply uncommon in world wine.
