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Chianti Classico Riserva, Querciabella 2015

Tasting Notes

Sebastiano Castiglioni’s Riserva bottling of Chianti is produced from a careful selection of the best lots of a given vintage, and then aged in the same combination of two-hundred twenty-five and five hundred liter casks as the normale, but with twenty percent new oak for the Riserva. The 2015 Riserva is pretty ripe, coming in at 14.5 percent alcohol, but also impressively precise, pure and balanced. The bouquet is excellent, with the slightly higher percentage of new oak quite seamlessly integrated in the constellation of black cherries, smoked meats, a fine base of soil tones, a lovely blend of spice tones, a fine base of soil, woodsmoke and a suave foundation of new oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core, impressive soil signature, ripe, buried tannins, good acids and a long, very well balanced and quite classy finish. This is a very impressive 2015! Drink between 2021-2060

92
John Gilman, View From the Cellar (91), February 2021
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