5 Best Wines Under $250

2. Marchesi Antinori Tignanello 2015

Insider Monkey Score: 6

Price: $213

Tignanello was the first Sangiovese to be aged in barriques, the first contemporary red wine blended with untraditional varieties (specifically Cabernet) and one of the first red wines in the Chianti Classico region that didn’t use white grapes. The 2015 is an expression that opens, like a fully bloomed rose, right in front of you. This vintage will surely flesh out and gain focus with more bottle age, but one of the best qualities of the 2015 is just how beautiful the wine tastes also straight out of the gate.

The Antinori family has been committed to the art of winemaking since 1385, producing some of the Best Rated Wines in the World. The Marchesi Antinori group also acquired the Napa Valley-based Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars last year.