Origin: Tuscany, Italy
Grape: Sangiovese
Year: 2015
Alcohol: 14.5
Price point: $22
Year Reviewed: 2018
So those of you know that a Chianti Classsico must be derived from the Sangiovese grape. I discovered this bottle at a tasting event for Italian wines and loved its dryness and integrated tannins.
These particular Sangiovese grapes were planted in a new vineyard, where they grow in very rock soil, which gets great drainage that is needed for a well-grown Sangiovese grape.
Let this bottle breathe and open up and the wine rounds out after a few hours. This clear medium garnet appearance in your glass has a slight meniscus of an orange ish brown color. The nose is clean with medium intensities of earth, mineral, animal and barnyard. Love it!
This is a very dry, high acidic, high tannic tasting of a great winemakers creation. This medium-bodied wine gives me flavors on the palate of cherries, minerality, cigar, mushroom and vegetal flavors. I can’t help noticing the dryness and tannins with every taste that leaves the wine lingering between my upper teeth and lip. The finish is longer than the average “long finish” for a wine and stays with you minutes afterword.
Vendemmia 2015 on the label, for those of you who don’t know Italian, as I do not, simply means “Harvest 2015.”
Check out this winery on line and book a stay with them. Swim in that private pool for me!!!
More about the Poggerino Winery below.
Poggerino’s wines are produced exclusively from its own grapes, and every step of wine production and marketing is carried out by the owners themselves.
We believe in an almost fanatical attention to vineyard work. It is in the vineyard that we must strive to produce healthy grapes which have attained the highest degree of concentration and ripeness possible, for this is essential to the production of wines of style and character that can fully reflect the individuality of Poggerino’s terroir.
The wines produced from these grapes combine a richness and concentration of fruit, acidity and tannin, indispensable to the wine’s longevity, while the soft, ripe nature of the tannins allows the wine to be enjoyed early in its life.
Poggerino’s vineyards are located 400 to 500 meters above sea level, and face south-southwest. The soil is very rocky, due to the breakup of local “galestro” rock, which provides optimal drainage. These factors are all essential in the quest to produce great Sangiovese.
Clonal selection in the newer plantings has resulted in Sangiovese vines that produce small grapes and bunches, thus maximizing concentration and sweetness of fruit and skin to juice ratios. This provides deeper colour and more intense, ripe tannins, essential in the structure of the wines.
This wine is going to pair well will some robust Italian dishes…..heavier pastas, lasagna, veal or chicken parmigiana, or even some roasts. Great fall and winter wine pleaser and are you hungry yet? I am going to investigate other wines from this amazing Italian winery.