reviews
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Chiara Giorleo
Freelance food and wine critic. AIS lecturer and translator in the food and wine industry. WSET certified.
Still ruby with good transparency. The nose is immediately chestnut. More airy than its predecessor, more evolved despite being a year younger, with additional pot-pourri notes. The alcohol is very well balanced revealing itself only indirectly with notes of coffee liqueur and under-ripe cherry. Enveloping, structured and drinkable even immediately.
Matteo De Paoli
Wineblogger (RadioBottiglia.com), former journalist now consultant for wineries.
A bottle that inside has an almost unrepeatable magic. It bewitches your heart with notes of cocoa and tobacco. Like a “best of” by a great international band: one of those CDs you would never do without, and that you would loop on long car trips. It is the best of the best that the Saragano winery can give to its devoted winelovers. A must-have for wine lovers. In other words: once you try it, you would never stop drinking it.
Andrea Petrini
Wineblogger, wine event organizer, lecturer and Ais sommelier
From the best grapes of the Cru “Palazzo” comes this Riserva which, thanks in part to the great reference vintage, is decidedly more ready and complex than the previous wine. The nose has aromas of blackberries and blueberries, bay leaves, pipe tobacco, humus, black spices, cedar wood and rhubarb. On the palate its alcoholic empire is masterfully modulated by an important acid shoulder. The tannins are vivid but well melded within the wine’s structure, which flows swiftly to an interminable fruity persistence.
Data sheet
Varietal: Sangiovese 60%, Merlot 20%, Other native berry 20%.
Age of the vineyard: 25 years old
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: 60ql
Harvest: Manual in 25kg crates
Aging: 2 years French Barrique, 2 years in bottles
Color: Ruby red tending to garnet
Olfactory: Wine of great elegance with delicate hints of black cherries
Taste: Soft, harmonious with a refined tannic texture
Production: 3800 bottles Only in great vintages