reviews
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Chiara Giorleo
Freelance food and wine critic. AIS lecturer and translator in the food and wine industry. WSET certified.
A wine with great personality and a balance certainly sustained by the cooler, rainy vintage that, however, at these altitudes, did not cause major problems. Dense and penetrating with notes of dried leaves, humus and tobacco preceding those of paprika, blood orange, currants and a floral touch. Incense on the finish. Tannin and acidity chase each other on the palate. Tannin as it should be: present and firm but ripe. A harmonious and elegant wine thanks above all to a perfect definition of the individual elements: a drawn tannin, never aggressive, a well-dosed freshness and a frank combination of aromas that make it sober in its complexity.
Matteo De Paoli
Wineblogger (RadioBottiglia.com), former journalist now consultant for wineries.
A wine with great personality and a balance certainly sustained by the cooler, rainy vintage that, however, at these altitudes, did not cause major problems. Dense and penetrating with notes of dried leaves, humus and tobacco preceding those of paprika, blood orange, currants and a floral touch. Incense on the finish. Tannin and acidity chase each other on the palate. Tannin as it should be: present and firm but ripe. A harmonious and elegant wine thanks above all to a perfect definition of the individual elements: a drawn tannin, never aggressive, a well-dosed freshness and a frank combination of aromas that make it sober in its complexity.
Andrea Petrini
Wineblogger, wine event organizer, lecturer and Ais sommelier
The wine poured into the glass excites me first of all for its elegant and unshouted olfactory framework where, with aristocratic complexity, one smells fragrant flashes of black cherry, green underbrush, humus, cigar box, incense, black pepper, eucalyptus and cocoa. On the palate the real surprise because one immediately grasps the solidity and harmonic homogeneity of the tannic and alcoholic scaffolding, the gritty tone and the vigorous but, vivadiously, at the same time elegant body. It is a red of great stuff, noble, elite, indulging without ever stewing the palate with tannic and alcoholic masses of unseemly texture.
Giuseppe Esposito
Sommelier and wineblogger
The wine poured into the glass excites me first of all for its elegant and unshouted olfactory framework where, with aristocratic complexity, one smells fragrant flashes of black cherry, green underbrush, humus, cigar box, incense, black pepper, eucalyptus and cocoa. On the palate the real surprise because one immediately grasps the solidity and harmonic homogeneity of the tannic and alcoholic scaffolding, the gritty tone and the vigorous but, vivadiously, at the same time elegant body. It is a red of great stuff, noble, elite, indulging without ever stewing the palate with tannic and alcoholic masses of unseemly texture.
Data sheet
Varietal: 100% Sagrantino
Vineyard age: 40 years (First year of Production: 1954)
Production Area: Exclusively from Saragano Estate
Exposure: southeast 500mt above sea level.
Soil type: Limestone with presence of skeleton, Clayey.
Training system: spurred cordon
Yield per hectare: 50ql
Harvest: Manual in 25kg crates
Aging: 2 years in Barrique, 2 years in bottle
Color: Ruby red with garnet hues
Olfactory: Notes of underbrush, black cherry, blackberry, tobacco, leather
Taste: Tannic but soft, full-bodied and elegant
Production: 4000 bottles