Argentiera
Ventaglio 2018
| Denomination | Toscana IGT |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Area | Tuscany (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Cabernet Franc |
| Aging | In oak and then in bottle before release. |
| Year | 2018 |
| Product name | Ventaglio 2018 |
| Color | Ruby red. |
| Perfume | An aromatic baggage that seduces with grace, recalling precious blackberry and raspberry aromas, memories of roasting, marine scrub, cloves and mentholated tobacco. |
| Taste | The dense, sinuous tannin is the proportionate framework of a properly structured body, where savouriness and freshness dissolve together, creating total harmony. The persistence, long and mineral, is to be applauded. |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Country | Italy |
Description
Tuscan still red, 14.5% ABV, produced by Argentiera, 0.75L bottle, 2018 vintage. A 100% Cabernet Franc made from an estate in a prime location, with vineyards close to the coast. The grapes were hand-picked into crates and selected on two sorting tables. Maceration was alternated with daily pumping over and manual punching down for 25 days, at a controlled temperature of around 28-30°C. The wine was then racked into barriques and tonneaux, partly new, made of French and Austrian oak, where malolactic fermentation was completed. A delicately seductive aromatic bouquet, evoking precious aromas of blackberry and raspberry, hints of roasted meat, marine scrub, cloves, and mentholated tobacco. The dense and sinuous tannin is the well-proportioned backbone of a well-structured body, where sapidity and freshness dissolve together, creating total harmony.
Awards
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2018
95/100
Decanter is a wine and lifestyle magazine, published monthly in around 90 countries. The magazine includes industry news, classic guides and advice on wine and spirits.
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2018
98/100
James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.
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2018
96/100
The prestigious international wine guide from the renowned Robert Parker, the world's most experienced and trusted wine taster.
Details
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
18 - 20 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
Pairings
- Start up year: 1999
- Oenologist: Nicolò Carrara
- Bottles produced: 480.000
- Hectares: 85
The name Argentiera derives from ancient silver mines, whose traces are preserved by the history ’s pen since the Etruscans. The Etruscan civilisation developed the peninsula’s first metallurgy, and their far-trading ships brought the art of metalworking to the remote corners of the flourishing archaic Greek settlements.
The estate extends over 153 hectares and embraces a one-of-a-kind biodiversity, a fundamentally important biological mosaic that allows the vineyards to flourish to their optimum extent, protected from insects, harmful animals, and climate-change stress. Read more
| Name | Argentiera Ventaglio 2018 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red still |
| Denomination | Toscana IGT |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Cabernet Franc |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Vendor | Argentiera |
| Climate | Altitude: 120 m. a.s.l. |
| Harvest | The grapes are hand-picked in boxes and sorted on two sorting tables. The whole berries by gravity fall into the two small French oak conical vats. |
| Wine making | Maceration was alternated with daily pumping over and manual punching-down for 25 days at a controlled temperature of around 28-30 °C. The wine was then racked into partly new French and Austrian oak barriques and tonneaux, where malolactic fermentation was completed. |
| Aging | In oak and then in bottle before release. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |