Description
Riecine’s organically farmed vineyards (since the 1970s) are in the northern zone of Gaiole, one of the highest quality communes of Chianti Classico. In the south of Gaiole, the vineyards are much lower in elevation, and the soil is less rocky than in the north. Almost entirely different from the lower area of Gaiole, the northern zone shares high altitudes—430 to 600 meters—with the vineyards of Radda in Chianti. The Chianti Classico is well above the cut for the price and value. Fruit-forward with a seamless and refined texture, it’s serious Sangiovese but with glou-glou immediacy upon pulling the cork. More classically savory characteristics of Chianti Classico begin to unfold with time open in its youth and surely with more maturation in the cellar and are supported with the acidic snap from its high altitude and endowed with a sappy red fruit core.
