The 2007 Chianti Classico is a sweet super-ripe wine with an enticing core of fruit. The heat of the vintage has filled out the wine nicely. Although the acidity is still relatively high this doesn't look to be an especially long-lived wine. That should hardly matter though as readers will have a hard time keeping their hands off this gem. In 2007 the Chianti Classico is a selection of fruit from eleven different vineyards harvested between the end of September and early October. The wine was mostly aged in cask with about 10% seeing smaller neutral French oak barrels. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2015.