1996 I Sodi di S. Niccolò, Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany, Italy

1996 I Sodi di S. Niccolò, Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany, Italy

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1996 I Sodi di S. Niccolò, Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany, Italy

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The 1996 I Sodi di San Niccolo is another big wine. Firm tannins frame an expressive core of black cherries, plums, spices, licorice and new leather. There is more than enough density in the fruit to make me think the wine will age beautifully for another 10-15 years. Although a lighter vintage on paper, the 1996 has put on considerable weight in bottle. A huge, structured finish rounds out this surprising and unexpectedly superb Sodi di San Niccolo. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2021. Proprietor Paolo Panerai is adamant about it.

Sangioveto is the correct name and spelling of Tuscany’s main indigenous red variety. Panerai is one of Italy’s most successful entrepreneurs. His publishing empire is vast and encompasses a number of journals running the gamut from Milano Finanza, an Italian version of Barron’s, to Class and other glossy lifestyle magazines. Since the late 1970s, Panerai has owned Castellare, one of the jewels of Chianti Classico. Castellare isn’t as well known as the trendiest estates in Tuscany, but the wines rarely fail to impress. The last few years have seen a marked increase in quality throughout the range, especially among the entry-level bottlings. Quality has never been an issue with the flagship I Sodi di San Niccolo, one of the true icons of Chianti Classico that remains under the radar. Sodi is 85% SaSodi is 85% Sangioveto and 15% Malvasia Nera from a vineyard in the heart of the estate, where the bunches are typically loose and naturally low in vigor. Today Sodi is fermented in stainless steel, then racked into concrete for the malolactic fermentation. The wine is aged 24 months in French oak barrels.
Antonio Galloni Wine Advocate #201 Jun 2012

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The 1996 I Sodi di San Niccolo is another big wine. Firm tannins frame an expressive core of black cherries, plums, spices, licorice and new leather. There is more than enough density in the fruit to make me think the wine will age beautifully for another 10-15 years. Although a lighter vintage on paper, the 1996 has put on considerable weight in bottle. A huge, structured finish rounds out this surprising and unexpectedly superb Sodi di San Niccolo. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2021. Proprietor Paolo Panerai is adamant about it.

Sangioveto is the correct name and spelling of Tuscany’s main indigenous red variety. Panerai is one of Italy’s most successful entrepreneurs. His publishing empire is vast and encompasses a number of journals running the gamut from Milano Finanza, an Italian version of Barron’s, to Class and other glossy lifestyle magazines. Since the late 1970s, Panerai has owned Castellare, one of the jewels of Chianti Classico. Castellare isn’t as well known as the trendiest estates in Tuscany, but the wines rarely fail to impress. The last few years have seen a marked increase in quality throughout the range, especially among the entry-level bottlings. Quality has never been an issue with the flagship I Sodi di San Niccolo, one of the true icons of Chianti Classico that remains under the radar. Sodi is 85% SaSodi is 85% Sangioveto and 15% Malvasia Nera from a vineyard in the heart of the estate, where the bunches are typically loose and naturally low in vigor. Today Sodi is fermented in stainless steel, then racked into concrete for the malolactic fermentation. The wine is aged 24 months in French oak barrels.
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Domini Castellare Di Castellina

Domini Castellare Di Castellina

Castellare di Castellina was born in 1968 from the consolidation of five farms.  A good exposure to the sun, a good drain of the water, a mixed ground of calcareous marls, galestro and little clay give wines both red and white, which are very well structured, intense and proper for a long ageing in bottle.

Poderi Castellare di Castellina is a company of about 80 hectares in the heart of the Chianti Classico area, close to the village of Castellina in Chianti. The hectares of vineyard are almost 33, located on the hills of a natural amphitheatre facing southeast. The production is of about 250.000 bottles of wine per year. To a middle altitude of 370 m. above sea level the vineyards have an age between 5 and 30 years. Besides the vineyards there are about 12 hectares of olive-groves and 15 hectares with a mixed cultivation.

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Sangiovese

Sangiovese

A black grape widely grown in Central Italy and the main component of Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano as well as being the sole permitted grape for the famed Brunello di Montalcino.

It is a high yielding, late ripening grape that performs best on well-drained calcareous soils on south-facing hillsides. For years it was blighted by poor clonal selection and massive overcropping - however since the 1980s the quality of Sangiovese-based wines has rocketed upwards and they are now some of the most sought after in the world.

It produces wines with pronounced tannins and acidity, though not always with great depth of colour, and its character can vary from farmyard/leather nuances through to essence of red cherries and plums. In the 1960s the advent of Super Tuscans saw bottlings of 100% Sangiovese wines, as well as the introduction of Sangiovese/Cabernet Sauvignon blends, the most famous being Tignanello.

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