Chianti Classico DOCG 2023

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

    Chianti Classico DOCG 2023
    29,00 €

    09462223 · 0,75 l · 38,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

    Ratings

    This vintage has not been rated yet. The 2022 vintage received the following awards:

    • Wine Classics: Chianti
    • Grape varieties: 90% Sangiovese, 10% Canaiolo
    • Cultivation: close to nature
    • Maturation: 12 months large wooden barrel
    • Filtration: no
    • Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
    • Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
    • Storage potential: 2035+
    • Closure: natural cork
    • Food recommendations
      fiorentina steak, pappardelle with wild boar, tuscan scottiglia, black truffle pasta
    • Total extract: 29,99 g/l
    • Total acidity: 5,91 g/l
    • Residual sugar: 1,09 g/l
    • Sulfite: 82 mg/l
    • pH value: 3,35
    • Allergens
      contains sulphites
    • Nutritional Information per 100 ml
      • Energy in kcal: 85 kcal
      • Energy in kJ: 353 kJ
      • Carbohydrates: 1,20 g
    Character
    • Tannin-containing and/or acid-stressed
    • Strong/spicy/earthy
    Fits to
    • Dark meat
    • Game birds
    • Grilled of any kind
    • Cheese made of raw milk
    • Cheese well matured
    • Pizza/pasta/casseroles and others
    • Risotto
    • Strong game dishes
    • Mild game dishes
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    1976 was Paolo De Marchis’s first year at Isole e Olena. He was 25; at the time, Chianti Classico was a wine that hardly anyone thought had a future, and the two medieval hamlets – isole and Olena – were what his father Francesco had bought in 1956: two dilapidated farmsteads in the hills west of Castellina. Paolo stayed. For almost fifty years. What he made of this estate changed the history of Chianti Classico. He was one of the first to vinify Sangiovese separately, one of the first to bring the hillside terraces back into cultivation, and one of the first to take Sangiovese seriously as a single variety. His Cepparello – , first bottled in 1980 – became one of Italy’s benchmark wines. Emanuele Reolon, the new technical director at Isole e Olena, sums it up as follows: “Paolo brought the Piedmontese style to Tuscany. He treated Sangiovese like Nebbiolo.” That was revolutionary at the time. Today, it is dogma.

    In 2022, Paolo sold the estate to Groupe EPI. Emanuele Reolon joined the team in September 2023. The 2023 vintage was the first they produced together – reolon and De Marchi, shoulder to shoulder in the vineyards that Paolo had tended for half a century. In early 2024, Paolo travelled to Alto Piemonte to be with his son Luca. The keys remained in Barberino Val d’Elsa. The 2023 vintage bears witness to this story. 56 hectares of vineyards at altitudes of 300 to 500 metres, completely surrounded by woodland – no other Chianti Classico estate is so secluded. Sangiovese and Canaiolo, hand-harvested, fermented in steel, aged in large oak barrels. The style that Paolo defined: freshness, elegance, purity of fruit. Reolon has changed nothing – because nothing needs changing.

    Bright ruby red. On the nose, cherry, raspberry, redcurrant, violet, lavender and thyme – — fresh, precise, with great aromatic purity. Pleasant and structured on the palate, supported by good body and lively acidity, with a long, seductive finish. The style of Paolo De Marchi – and Emanuele Reolon’s first venture. All in one glass, and very good indeed. SUPERIORE.DE

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