Casina di Cornia Chianti Classico, DOCG, red, organic wine, from € 15.50

Casina di Cornia, Chianti Classico DOCG, red, organic wine, 2020, from € 15,50

Casina di Chianti Classico DOCG must be grown in central Tuscany. This organic wine meets this requirement because it is produced in Castellina in Chianti, in one of the best wine-growing areas in Tuscany in the vineyards of the Casina di Cornia.

Organic wine - profile

• Color: Bright, vivid red, with violet hues in a youthful state, which evaporates with increasing maturity.
• Nose: holding a bouquet of wild berries and spicy notes of wild herbs and spices.
• Palate: requires some patience when young, but 3 years after harvest time it offers all the positive and typoical characteristics of the Sangiovese grape with fruit, mouth-filling, spicy flavors and a striking and well integrated structure with ripe tannins and a very long finsh.

Organic wine - processing, Casina di Cornia, Chianti Classico

The manual harvest was carried out at the beginning of October 2016. The grapes were then lightly pressed during the period of cold maceration, then fermented for 6 weeks in large wooden vats. Finally, they were transferred to barrels (80% new), in which malolactic fermentation and ripening took place for 12 months.

The organic wine at a glance

• Type of wine: red wine
• Production area: Tuscany
• Producer and bottler: Casina di Cornia
• Grape variety: 97 % Sangiovese, 3 % Canaiolo
• Aging: in barriques
• Quantity: 0.75 l
• Vintage: 2020
• Shelf life: 8 years from vintage
• Alcohol: 13 % vol.
• Allergens: contains sulphites
• Vegan suited
• Wine certified IT-BIO-006
• We buy this wine directly from Casina di Cornia, 53011Castellina in Chianti, Italy

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