Details
Serve at:
18 - 20 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour

Pairings
Meat
Game
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork
Producer
Ricasoli 1141
From this winery
- Start up year: 1141
- Oenologist: Carlo Ferrini
- Bottles produced: 2.500.000
- Hectares: 235
Ricasoli is the most representative wine producer in the Chianti Classico area. With its gentle hills, velvety valleys and thick woodlands of oaks and chestnuts, the 1,200 hectares of property include almost 240 hectares of vineyards and 26 of olive groves. This creates a continuous succession of colours and hues around the Brolio Castle, which is located within the town limits of Gaiole in Chianti. Since 1993, Baron Francesco Ricasoli has been guiding this central Tuscan company in innovative challenges. This has been done with the deepest respect for his renowned ancestors who have made this territory great, Bettino Ricasoli first and foremost.
Francesco Ricasoli, current owner and President of the company, has generated new ideas and concepts to render the vineyards sustainable. The ongoing study of soil types and the clonal selection of the Brolio Sangiovese are among his greatest passions, and he has totally renovated the vineyards and completely mapped them. The new wines are therefore the expression of research carried out with the same scientific rigor of his illustrious ancestor but with a contemporary spirit, like a runner receiving the baton and carrying it forward with renewed energy. Read more
Francesco Ricasoli, current owner and President of the company, has generated new ideas and concepts to render the vineyards sustainable. The ongoing study of soil types and the clonal selection of the Brolio Sangiovese are among his greatest passions, and he has totally renovated the vineyards and completely mapped them. The new wines are therefore the expression of research carried out with the same scientific rigor of his illustrious ancestor but with a contemporary spirit, like a runner receiving the baton and carrying it forward with renewed energy. Read more


Name | Ricasoli 1141 Ceniprimo Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Gaiole 2021 |
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Type | Red still |
Denomination | Chianti Classico DOCG |
Vintage | 2021 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 15.0% by volume |
Grape varieties | 100% Sangiovese |
Country | Italy |
Region | Tuscany |
Vendor | Ricasoli 1141 |
Origin | Gaiole in Chianti (Siena) |
Climate | Altitude: 300 m. a.s.l. Exposure: South-East. A variable vintage with generally average temperatures. Short, intense rainfall occurred mainly in June. The veraison started regularly at the beginning of August, grape ripeness occurred between late August and early September. |
Soil composition | Clay, silt and limestone, little skeleton, and poor in organic substance. This cru lies on the large valley of the Arbia river, in the southernmost part of the estate. The very particular and complex soil originates from an ancient fluvial terrace dating back to the Pliocene-Pleistocene. |
Cultivation system | Spurred cordon |
Plants per hectare | 5,952 |
Harvest | By hand, the 12th of October from the CeniPrimo vineyard. |
Fermentation temperature | 24-27 °C |
Wine making | The grapes are destemmed and transferred by gravity into 100-hl stainless steel conical tanks and then inoculated with selected yeasts. Fermentation temperature at 24-27°C with daily punching-down. Length of fermentation and maceration on skins of about 14 6 days. |
Aging | 22 months in 500-l tonneaux, of which 30% new and 70% of second passage. |
Total acidity | 5.88 gr/L |
PH | 3.28 |
Dry extract | 27.53 gr/L |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |