Cigliano di Sopra Chianti Classico 2021
Biodynamic
I love the Cigliano di Sopra 2021 Chianti Classico. This fabulous wine comes from an exciting estate that I absolutely recommend you seek out. Made with organic Sangiovese, it offers a punchy and bright fruit profile with cassis, red berry and blue flower that pop from the glass. The wine offers balance, freshness and an elegantly streamlined style. It feels transparent, almost fragile. Fruit is selected from across a seven-hectare site, and within that space, three hectares were planted in the 1970s and 1980s. The rest were planted more recently from 2004 on. With exactly 11,586 bottles made, this is a thrilling discovery. Drink 2023-2030. 94 Points. Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate.
Matteo Vaccari and Maddalena Fucile honed their winemaking crafts at Tuscany’s Tenuta degli Dei, Fontodi and Isole Eolie. After, they both went to America to work with two of California’s top winemakers, Sashi Moorman and Rajat Parr, at their California and Oregon-based estates Domaine de la Cote, Sandhi, Pence Ranch, and Evening Land. Ultimately, Maddalena returned to her family estate, Cigliano di Sopra, in northern Chianti, where she and Matteo restored the property's old vineyards through organic and biodynamic farming. Today, they farm seven hectares on sandy-clay soils rich in limestone. All fruit is hand-harvested, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in wood.