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Castellare di Castellina – Poggio ai Merli – 2019
A fantastic and bewitching wine, all to be discovered and drunk on fine occasions, another example of how Tuscany is the Italian region that gives some of the world’s expressions of international grape varieties with its famous SuperTuscans. Poggio ai Merli is a pure Merlot, one of the allochthonous varieties grown by the winery that has become a true icon today as it has found its proper dimension in this land of excellence. This is a vineyard in Castellina planted in the 1990s with the first vintage released in 1999, it has a favorable southern exposure with an elevation between 350-400 meters with mostly calcareous soils. Only the best is harvested for a maximum of 30/40 quintals, the grapes are vinified in thermoconditioned steel tanks for 25 days, after malolactic fermentation there is an aging for 30 months in French barriques (50% new) with a rest in the bottle then for another 12 months. You fall in love with it from the first sips, complex aromatic profile notes of black fruits such as currants and roasted hints, a warm drink weighted by a beautiful acidity and long final persistence that give a stratospheric balance. World-class caliber absolutely!
- Producer: Castellare di Castellina
- Name: Poggio ai Merli
- Grape Variety: 100% Merlot
- Vintage: 2019
- Alcohol Content: 14%
- Bottle Size: 750 ml
- Production:
Productive Notes: vinification in steel tanks, aging for 30 months in French barriques (50% new), plus 12 months in bottle.
Wine naturally contains solphites
84,00€
1 in stock
Description
There could be no better time to witness the birth of spectacular and pioneering wineries, these are in fact the years of the “Italian Wine Renaissance” or an era since 1970 that will see the emergence of important names in the peninsula that will change the way of making wine. Castellare di Castellina was born thanks to Paolo Panerai with the goal of producing wines with the absolute best quality by espousing a traditional philosophy using only indigenous grape varieties such as Sangiovese and Malvasia Nera, but giving room for innovation! The winery as we see it now was born in 1979 in the heart of Chianti Classico in Castellina in Chianti with the union of 4 different estates, but of these the area of Castellare was always cultivated and considered one of the best for the quality of Sangiovese. A total of 80 hectares are cultivated, 33 of which are vineyards, safeguarding the environment by eliminating synthetic chemicals, and the work in the vineyard is more than qualitative with very low yields of no more than 40-50 quintals.
It is precisely thanks to Paul that we see a rebirth of Castellare!…with studies with Professor Attilio Scienza the first experimental vineyard of Sangiovese clones was born, while in the cellar instead they gave space to the introduction of barriques in the aging following the advice of Emile Peynaud and his friend Giacomo Tachis, two of the best oenologists of the century. Their efforts made them world-famous within a few years, producing some of the most memorable and remembered reds ever (such as the Sodi di San Niccolo’) continuing today to use vitrified cement tanks in vinification and in the transit of the wines before bottling-all supervised today by oenologist Alessandro Cellai. They are to all intents and purposes a true Tuscan symbol, recognizable from time immemorial by their labels each year depicting different endangered birds and their commitment to passing on the legacy in the wines of those who lived and preserved that land before them.
