Chardonnay Toscana IGT 2024

    Isole e Olena | Tuscany
    Isole e Olena S.r.l. | Loc. Isole 1 | IT 50021 Barberino Val d'Elsa

    Chardonnay Toscana IGT 2024
    87,00 €

    09460124 · 0,75 l · 116,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

    Ratings

    This vintage has not been rated yet. The 2023 vintage received the following awards:

    • Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay
    • Cultivation: conventional
    • Maturation: 12 months in barrique
    • Filtration: yes
    • Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
    • Serving temperature: 10‑12 °C
    • Storage potential: 2037+
    • Closure: natural corks
    • Food recommendations
      lobster with vanilla butter, pasta with white truffle, scallops, matured goat’s cheese, porcini mushroom risotto
    • Total extract: 24,98 g/l
    • Total acidity: 5,16 g/l
    • Residual sugar: 1,22 g/l
    • Sulfite: 82 mg/l
    • pH value: 3,41
    • Allergens
      contains sulphites
    • Nutritional Information per 100 ml
      • Energy in kcal: 84 kcal
      • Energy in kJ: 348 kJ
      • Carbohydrates: 1,10 g
    Character
    • Fruity/berry/juicy
    • Harmonious/soft and round
    Fits to
    • Grilled/fried fish
    • Seafood/shellfish
    • White poultry
    • Vegetable meals
    • Cheese made of raw milk
    • Medium old cheese
    • Risotto
    • Terrines/pasty
    stored air-conditioned Bookmark

    It was a provocation. When Paolo De Marchi began planting Chardonnay on the hills of San Donato in Poggio in the late 1970s, the response from Chianti Classico was unequivocal: that wasn’t what they did here. This is Sangiovese country. International grape variety craze. Paolo planted anyway – across six hectares that hardly anyone would have considered suitable for Chardonnay: north-facing, at over 400 metres, completely surrounded by woodland, on soils of limestone, marl and galestro that have defined Chianti Classico for its red wines.

    That was the punchline. Because it is precisely these conditions – – coolness, altitude, mineral-rich soils, no direct sunlight in the afternoon – give the Chardonnay here something it cannot find in warmer locations: tension. Freshness. A minerality that no vineyard further down the valley can match. Vintage after vintage, the wine proved that Chianti Classico can also produce white wines with identity, emotion and longevity. It quickly became a rarity – —produced in such limited quantities and sold out so quickly that we came to call it the “silent wine” internally.

    2024 was a different year for this wine compared to 2023. Better natural acidity, better pH – emanuele Reolon decided, for the first time in years, to put 10 per cent of the wine through malolactic fermentation. “We have no rules at Isole e Olena,” he says. “Paolo taught us not to follow a recipe, but to respond to the needs of the vintage.” Fermentation and ageing inLiters, one-third of which are new. Bâtonnage, followed by “roulage” – — the rolling of the barrels to mix the wine and lees without opening the barrique. Twelve months’ ageing.

    Bright pale gold with greenish highlights. The bouquet is spicy and alluring: lime, green apple, white peach, fresh bread crust straight from the oven, with a hint of cinnamon and vanilla. On the palate, it is full-bodied with a creamy texture, featuring fresh, lively acidity and a long, slightly citrusy final. The Chardonnay that has proven that Chianti Classico knows no bounds. SUPERIORE.DE

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