Facts– 14% alc.; 50% Sangiovese (from Tuscany) & 30% Montepulciano and 20% Merlot (from Abruzzo); 20% spent 9-12 months in 5 year old large oak casks. Gordon Ramsay becomes the latest celebrity to launch his own range of wines, following in the footsteps of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Sir Ian Botham and, most recently, Gary Barlow. The collection features three wines: a red, white and rosé and is said to combine his personal passion for winemaking and superb ingredients. Believing the contents to be the best that Italy has to offer, he was quoted in The Drinks Business, saying: When it came to launching my own wine range, it was very important to set the same standards and quality as I expect in my restaurants,” he added.

A blend of 50% old vine Tuscan Sangiovese and 30% Montepulciano and Merlot from Abruzzo this Gordan Ramsay Intenso Rosso is a show stopping red wine from one of the world’s most famous Chefs. Wine has always fascinated me - a complex marriage of tradition art science land and people all captured together in a glass.”– Gordon Ramsay

2022 Masi Fresco di Masi Rosso Unfiltered Verona IGT, Italy (LCBO $19)

Gordon and Alberto Antonini are a match made in heaven; they each strive to create top quality products in their own fields and together they’ve blended a beautiful collection of wines. We’re delighted to have partnered with them.”

The partnership between Ramsay and Antonini had resulted in a “pioneering decision” to blend fruit from two different regions, Tuscany and Abruzzo, which was “key in achieving the desired styles and flavours”, it added.The wines –which were “years in development and driven by memorable times spent in Italy” –were developed alongside winemaker Alberto Antonini. Grapes have been grown here since at least 1583, when Count Daniele Malabaila had a vineyard and a dairy farm on the property. This wine reflects the terroir admirably. Red fruit aromas and flavours of raspberry, redcurrant and cranberry are accented by gentle spice and tobacco, rose petal and mountain herbs. A midweight wine of superb elegance, it shows racy acidity and linen-textured tannins, with dried red fruits and floral lift on the finish. An ethereal expression of pure Nebbiolo that will work well with lighter meats or pastas adorned with mixed mushrooms or autumnal truffles. (Patricia Stefanowicz MW) Having run a three Michelin star restaurant for more than two decades Gordon Ramsay has tasted his fair share of the finest wines on the planet. Inspired by them and the happy times he spent touring Italy with his wife Tana the celebrity chef decided to release his own wine range. Obviously it needed to be crafted to the same high standards he expects in his restaurants so he teamed up with one of the world’s most famous winemakers Alberto Antonini. The Tuscan-born oenologist has shaped fine wine immeasurably through his work with Antinori Frescobaldi Poggiotondo Concha y Toro Seghesio Altos Los Hormigas Chakana Bodega Garzon and countless others. Created by two experts in their field who are renowned for their attention to detail and the quality of their palates the currently three-strong range is vegan friendly and explores some of Italy’s most loved regions.