The 2016 vintage saw a rainy early season (more than double the rainfall of the year before) and a warm but not overly hot summer, with strong day-night temperature differences, encouraging aromatic complexity and...
The 2016 vintage saw a rainy early season (more than double the rainfall of the year before) and a warm but not overly hot summer, with strong day-night temperature differences, encouraging aromatic complexity and polyphenols. In the glass this translates into a more serious, structured wine, still with the vivid jewel-like colour that is such a signature of Sangiovese from the Chianti region. The Cabernet character is most clear here compared to all the wines in the vertical, majoring on black cherry, cassis, brambled fruits, with tobacco leaf and slate minerality, giving it a little less estate signature, but a pleasing reminder of its history as one of the original Super Tuscans. Carlo Ferrini consulting winemaker. Marchesi Mazzei.