Review: Sagrantino Wines of Messina Hof, 2026 Releases

Sagrantino is a grape that genuinely humbles. Not in a pretentious, wine-clown kind of way, but more like the way a long hike in midday July heat humbles: you think you’re prepared, and then somewhere around mile three, there’s an epiphany that in no way do you have business being out there. That’s Sagrantino: dense, tannic and aggressively structured, especially when it’s young. You don’t casually sip it in its youthful stage. It’s more of a negotiation. It originates in