2016 | Villa Rosa | Chianti Classico Gran Selezione

Offering a ripeness, tannic texture and progression granted only by the best years. The color is vivid and rarefied, anticipating a bouquet that reveals to be extremely elegant, characterized by floral notes that overlap and intertwine with a delicate fruitiness and slight hints of spiciness.

Reviews:

• Jeb Dunnuck: The 2016 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione offers rounded aromatics of baked cherry, dried herbs, leather, and anise. It is full bodied, with ample structure, and retains a pure and transparent nature. Ripe with red cherry, tea, bergamot, and clove and balanced with its refreshing and angular structure, it should stand to improve over the next 10 or more years.

• James Suckling: A dense, layered red with plums, a touch of dark chocolate, as well as walnut character. Medium to full body. Velvety tannins. Flavorful finish. Needs two or three years to soften. Try after 2020.

Producer Information

Villa Rosa has some of the richest heritage in Castellina in Chianti and its vineyards resonate the essence of Chianti Classico. The Cecchi Family purchased the property from the Lucherini Bandini Family who had carefully tended the land for almost 70 years. The families shared a great friend who linked them together: the renowned and formidable wine taster, Giulio Gambelli. For Giulio, Villa Rosa was the best vineyards in Castellina in Chianti Classico for growing Sangiovese. As Giulio used to say: "A Villa Rosa il Sangiovese ci nasce bene!" – (At Villa Rosa, the Sangiovese grows well!). Immediately after purchasing the property in 2015, they conducted a meticulous soil analysis to understand the potential for Sangiovese in each vineyard. The estate includes 30 hectares of vineyards, all included in the Chianti Classico appellation. The focus was and still is to produce the best expression of Sangiovese from the Chianti Classico denomination in the higher elevations of Castellina in Chianti. The 2015 harvest was used for the debut vintage of Gran Selezione Villa Rosa, which burst onto the scene from a year of exceptional growing conditions: cold winters, mild and humid springs, summers with good temperature ranges, and some rainfall. The property is managed with the sole objective of producing a Gran Selezione wine, which is the most prestigious designation in Chianti Classico and is meant to be a pure expression of Sangiovese.

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