Italy Deep Dive: Chianti & Brunello, Thursday 28th November 2024
Tutored Tastings
Treat yourself, your family or a client to one of our exclusive tutored tastings. One of our experts will guide you through a range of wines or spirits while educating you on the evening’s topic. From style and regional focusses to cheese and wine pairings, these are unmissable chances to broaden your wine and spirits knowledge.
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
Join Tuscan wine expert, Michael Dabbs, in our Pickering Cellar for a deep-dive into two of Tuscany’s most famous red wines, Chianti and Brunello di Montalcino.
The masterclass will begin by exploring the general characteristics of the noble Sangiovese grape variety from which these two regional wines are made, before moving on to taste a suite of wines produced by some of Tuscany’s finest estates. Over the course of the evening, we will discuss the similarities and differences in sub-regional terroir and winemaking. We will also have the opportunity to taste examples with bottle age, discovering how majestically these wines can evolve with additional cellaring.
Wines to be tasted:
Apéritif: 2023 Casamatta Bianco, Bibi Graetz
2018 Chianti Classico, Badia a Coltibuono
2018 Chianti Classico, Riserva, Badia a Coltibuono
2018 Chianti Classico, Vigna del Sorbo, Gran Selezione, Fontodi
2018 Cepparello, Isole e Olena
2022 Rosso di Montalcino, Scopetone
2019 Brunello di Montalcino, Scopetone
2018 Brunello di Montalcino, Biondi-Santi
2015 Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, Biondi-Santi
2007 Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, Conti Costanti
2005 Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, Soldera Case Basse
Dress code: smart casual
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