Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Colledila Gaiole 2021

Description

The Colledilà Chianti Classico Gran Selezione is a cru of Chianti Classico produced from 100% Sangiovese grapes. This still red wine is a Controlled and Guaranteed Designation of Origin (DOCG) product and is the result of organic farming. The grapes, sourced from the small vineyard of the same name planted in the hilly area of Gaiole, best express the terroir that grows there. The vines are located 380 meters above sea level.

Producer

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

Tuscany

Technical Sheet

Name	Ricasoli 1141 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Colledila Gaiole 2021
Type	Red still
Denomination	Chianti Classico DOCG
Vintage	2021
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	14.5% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Sangiovese
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Vendor	Ricasoli 1141
Origin	Gaiole in Chianti (SI)
Climate	Altitude: 380 m. a.s.l. The climate of the 2019 harvest was very variable, but with temperatures that were on the whole average. Short, intense rainfall occurred mainly in June. The veraison started regularly at the beginning of August, with the first ripe grapes arriving at the end of August-beginning of September.
Soil composition	This Cru lies on a clayey-calcareous soil, the so-called "alberese", a geological formation of Monte Morello, one of the most representative types of the denomination: a very stony soil, rich in calcium carbonate and clay and poor in organic substance.
Cultivation system	Spurred cordon.
Plants per hectare	6600
Harvest	Hand-picked, selecting the best grapes from the Colledilà vineyard on 4 October.
Fermentation temperature	24-27 °C
Wine making	The grapes are destemmed and transferred by gravity into 100 hl stainless steel conical tanks, then inoculated with selected yeasts. Fermentation follows at a temperature of 24-27 °C with daily punching-down and maceration on the skins for about 14 6 days.
Aging	22 months in 500-litre tonneaux of which 30% new and 70% second passage.
Total acidity	5.83 gr/L
PH	3.16
Dry extract	27.18 gr/L
Allergens	Contains sulphites