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Castell'in Villa, Chianti Classico Riserva, 2008

Red Wine from Tuscany, Italy
by Castell'in Villa
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The standard bearer for traditionally made Chianti Classico. Princess Coralia Pignatelli della Leonessa has run Castell'in Villa for decades from the southeastern reaches of the appellation — Castelnuovo Berardenga — where the Sangiovese grows longer legs than almost anywhere else in Chianti. This isn't a wine to crack open the evening it arrives: Castell'in Villa's Riserva is built for 20 or more years of cellaring, and the 2008 has been developing slowly into something remarkable. It's at a beautiful drinking window now — the tannins have integrated, the savory, earthy complexity has bloomed, but the structure that defines this estate is still very much present. If you believe that great Chianti can age like great Burgundy or Barolo, Castell'in Villa is your proof.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Sangiovese

  • Vintage

    2008

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Style

    Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Wild boar ragu, bistecca alla Fiorentina, aged pecorino, braised lamb, roasted mushrooms

Tasting Profile

Dried cherry, leather, tobacco, earthy herbs, iron, sandalwood. Firm but supple tannins, bright acidity, long savory finish. Classic and evolved.

The Principessa is Coralia Pignatelli della Leonessa, the owner and driving force behind Castell'in Villa for decades now. She is a thoughtful, philosophical winemaker who takes her time to understand everything, to get everything just right. She makes Chianti Classico, but she seems to have no blind spots at all. She decided she just couldn't appreciate the Argentine Malbecs she tasted, but her response wasn't to trash talk them or ignore them. No, she travelled to Argentina to study them. And there she learned a good lesson: the wineries that rushed their vines' growth with too much irrigation ended up with simpler, characterless wines. The producers she found who took their time made wines of distinctly greater character. Which affirmed the way Castell'in Villa has always done things: traditionally, with nothing rushed, nothing forced. The farming is old fashioned, the fermentations are with indigenous yeasts, the aging is in old, neutral oak. And the wine waits until it is ready to be drunk, not rushed to meet the hype for the latest vintage.