Cerbaiola
Chianti Classico Gran Selezione D.O.C.G.
“A wine telling its territory”
Classified as a Gran Selezione, Cerbaiola wine portrays the intense marriage of the grape variety and its terroir.
We sourced this wine from the Sangiovese vines of the estate vineyard named Cerbaiola, in San Donato.
Power and sensitivity, strength and kindness, are words that best can describe this wine.
Vintage conditions
Considerably scarcer than average in terms of quantity, but capable, in every region of Italy, of overcoming climatic excesses unscathed, providing healthy and beautiful grapes, balanced in terms of alcohol and acidity, and heralding great wines.
After the April frost event, in Tuscany, the unusual heat and drought in summer further effected grapes reduction (the youngest vines did not reach the full growth) and translated into low yields as well. September was propitious: sunny, with good temperature ranges day and night, some gentle rain and good ventilation thus enabling us to harvest some very well ripened sangiovese grapes in October.
The result was : very low quantity and yeald but some very high quality Sangiovese grapes from the oldest vineyards, surprising for complexity and elegance, definitely above our expectations this year.
