PRACTICING ORGANIC FARMING
"Chiesamonti" is a 1.3-hectare parcel adjacent to the town of San Felice in Castelnuovo Berardenga, with a stonier soil profile and a lower clay content than Giovanna's home turf. The vines, now over a decade old, used to be blended into "Cinque" in their younger years, but she now feels they are ready for prime time, and this wine-bottled on its own for the first time in 2018-provides a fascinating counterpoint to "Le Trame": silkier, higher-toned, and overall prettier, with a more blatant mineral underpinning and less sumptuously fleshy fruit. It spends two years in Stockinger barrels, just like its sister wine, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined
VINOUS 95 POINTS - "The 2022 Chiesamonti is stellar. Chiesamonti is often marked by slightly coarse tannins. In 2022, intense summer heat amplified the fruit, yielding an especially showy, racy edition of the Chiesamonti. Plush contours wrap around a core of dark red/purplish fruit, blood orange, rose petal, lavender and spice. Readers will have a hard time keeping their hands off this wine. And why should they? This is pure and total seduction."
"Chiesamonti" is a 1.3-hectare parcel adjacent to the town of San Felice in Castelnuovo Berardenga, with a stonier soil profile and a lower clay content than Giovanna's home turf. The vines, now over a decade old, used to be blended into "Cinque" in their younger years, but she now feels they are ready for prime time, and this wine-bottled on its own for the first time in 2018-provides a fascinating counterpoint to "Le Trame": silkier, higher-toned, and overall prettier, with a more blatant mineral underpinning and less sumptuously fleshy fruit. It spends two years in Stockinger barrels, just like its sister wine, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese, with just a touch of Canaiolo.
Spontaneous fermentations, minimal sulfites, unfiltered & unfined
VINOUS 95 POINTS - "The 2022 Chiesamonti is stellar. Chiesamonti is often marked by slightly coarse tannins. In 2022, intense summer heat amplified the fruit, yielding an especially showy, racy edition of the Chiesamonti. Plush contours wrap around a core of dark red/purplish fruit, blood orange, rose petal, lavender and spice. Readers will have a hard time keeping their hands off this wine. And why should they? This is pure and total seduction."
