
Perfume

Color

Taste
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
05 - 10 years
Decanting time:
1 hour

- Start up year: 1968
- Oenologist: Matteo Menicacci, Valentino Ciarla
- Bottles produced: 700.000
- Hectares: 160
The thing is so successful that part of the historic Ricasoli estate, including Meleto, is also purchased. An important work of agrarian transformation and restructuring of the farmhouses followed, until the present physiognomy was reached.
Today the Viticola Toscana (this is the name of the company), is taken as an example of organizational efficiency, a company that has been able to positively change the destiny of this Chianti land border, placed at the limits of what were the Republics of Siena and of Florence. Read more


Name | Castello di Meleto Chianti Classico 2022 |
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Type | Red organic still |
Denomination | Chianti Classico DOCG |
Vintage | 2022 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 13.0% by volume |
Grape varieties | 100% Sangiovese |
Country | Italy |
Region | Tuscany |
Vendor | Castello di Meleto |
Origin | Loc. Meleto - Gaiole in Chianti (SI) |
Climate | Altitude: 420 m. a.s.l. |
Soil composition | Alberese and galestro skeleton mainly clayey rich in iron, sulfur and quartz. |
Cultivation system | Spurred cordon, guyot and sapling. |
Plants per hectare | 3,500-5,000 |
Yield per hectare | 6,000kg/h. |
Harvest | The grapes are harvested either by hand or by machine. |
Fermentation temperature | 25-28 °C |
Fermentation | 15-20 days. |
Wine making | The must obtained after a destemming and a light pressing of the grapes, is introduced into steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 25-28 ° C where, for a period of time ranging from 15 to 20 days, spontaneous alcoholic fermentation takes place (without the addition of exogenous yeasts) and the consequent maceration on the skins, after malolactic fermentation, carried out in cement tanks. |
Aging | 15 months in 54 hl Slavonian oak barrels. |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |