Piemaggio, Sangiovese "Le Fioraie" Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy 2022 orange fruit forward with lovely pear

fruit forward with lovely pear skin bitters

Bright cherry pink color

a legendary stand of ancient conifers in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park

Using Giulio Cocchi’s original recipe from the late 1800s

Piemaggio, Sangiovese "Le Fioraie" Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy 2022 orange fruit forward with lovely pear90% Sangiovese with 10% Canaiolo, Ciliegiolo, and Colorino. Utterly textbook in character, combining earth, bright fruit, and tangy acidity, with notable yet unforced concentration; it is a wine of balance and egoless drinkability. The wine ferments spontaneously in stainless steel during a 3 week maceration, and spends two years aging in a combination of concrete tanks and previously used wooden casks mainly 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak, with some 500