Features
Name:
Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG 2022 Castellare di Castellina
Terrain:
Limestone
Cellar
The wine cellar Castellare di Castellina was born in Castellina in Chianti, in the heart of Chianti Classico, from the union of four estates (Castellare, Caselle, San Niccolò and Le Case) created by Paolo Panerai with the aim of producing wine of the best possible quality. It was the 1970s when the so-called Renaissance of Italian wine had begun. From the very beginning, the famous Tuscan winery made a great contribution to the 'Renaissance', bringing tradition and innovation together. Tradition in the care of the vines and the land, distinguished between campi and sodi (where campi are the easiest soils to work and sodi the hardest but best plots for growing vines), in the decision to still produce wine according to the Tuscan government method, to respect Chianti Classico by using only indigenous vines, and to produce a great wine, recognised internationally as one of the greatest reds in the world, using only indigenous Tuscan vines.
Description
Chianti Classico Riserva from the famous Tuscan winery Castellare di Castellina is a red wine produced at 95% from Sangiovese grapes and at 5% from Canaiolo grapes.
It is a careful selection of the best grapes from the estate, to obtain in each vintage a wine that best interprets the Chianti Classico territory. It is an elegant, harmonious wine with a flavour that becomes increasingly velvety with the passage of time.
Organoleptic characteristics:
It has a ruby red colour. The nose has an intense perfume of violets and a finesse that increases with the passage of time. On the palate it is rather dry and harmonious, but also slightly tannic, with a flavour that becomes increasingly velvety with the passage of time.
Storage time:
10 years
Vinification
Alcoholic fermentation took place in steel tanks.
Acknowledgements
2021 Wine Spectator 93/100
2020 Wine Spectator 93/100
2020 Decanter 5 stars
2020 Wine Advocate 92/100
2020 Wine Enthusiast 92/100
2020 Wine Spectator 93/100
2019 James Suckling 92/100