97 Points - Robert Parker
"The 2001 Messorio, 100% Merlot, is not quite at the level of the 1997, one of the most perfect wines ever made in Tuscany, but it is pure sumptuousness and volume from start to finish. Perfectly ripe and sweet, dense and voluminous but, oh, so velvety, an unending cascade of ravishing, spicy fruit, this is Tuscan Merlot at its best and another wine with two decades of life ahead."

"This is quite simply the finest Merlot produced outside the Right Bank of Bordeaux!" - Jay Miller of Wine Spectator. That right bank is now WAY right... in Italy.