Colle Santa Mustiola - 2005 Poggio Ai Chiari - Sangiovese Toscana IGT
Description
Overview: Generally temperate influenced by the presence of the lakes of Chiusi, Trasimeno, and Montepulciano with cold winters and normally mild summers characterized by large temperature ranges between day and night. 78 months in French oak barriques and part in 20/30 hl Slovenian oak barrels. subsequent bottle aging for a minimum of 24 months before release.
Poggio ai Chiari is a wine that expresses the elegance typical of the great Tuscan Sangioveses, the particular site where the vineyard is located and the careful winemaking practices allow to obtain a fine, elegant wine capable of refining for many years improving and acquiring a bouquet of rare complexity.
Tasting Notes: The typical notes of red fruit are over time made more complex by a series of tertiary aromas such as spices, leather, cinnamon and nutmeg that support a mouth of rare elegance in which the tannic texture expresses a silkiness that is typical only of great red wines from areas highly suited for viticulture as is the area of Santa Mustiola in Chiusi
Pairing: Game starters, meat dishes, aged cheeses
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Format/ABV: 750ml/13.5%
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