Vin Santo Sant’Antimo DOC 2018 dolce

Lisini | Tuscany
Az. Agr. Lisini Podere Casanova | Sant'Angelo in Colle | IT 53024 Montalcino

09570118 · 0,375 l · 157,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available

700 bottles. That is the entire production of this Vin Santo – from the Vigneto delle Valli at 420 metres, 5,000 vines per hectare, 1.5 kilograms of grapes per vine. Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia Bianca, half each, harvested by hand in the first days of September 2018 and then transferred to the appassimento. The grapes were left to dry for four months in the ventilated appassitoio – four months in which the water drained away, the sugar concentrated and the flavour intensified. Then manual pressing with a mechanical hand press. What remains finds its way into 100-litre chestnut Liters– sealed with the winery's mother yeast, which is passed on from vintage to vintage. There the must rests, ferments slowly and matures for five years. Five years in which wood, yeast and time do their part.

Intense golden amber. On the nose, dried fig, candied apricot, walnut, chestnut honey, a hint of vanilla and sweet smoke – complex, deep, with a stillness that knows decades. 150 g/l residual sugar on the palate – but no heaviness, as the acidity keeps everything in balance. Velvety soft, with a long persistence and a final that never lets up. A Vin Santo that shows why this craft is not dying out – as long as someone has the patience to cultivate it. SUPERIORE.DE