Castellare di Castellina I Sodi di S. Niccolo

Garnet red in colour. Full-bodied, with firm yet fine-grained tannins. The bouquet is rich and elegant and offers aromas of ripe cherries, dark berries, and currants which are complemented by notes of vanilla, leather, and cedar. The palate, brings an abundance of aromatic dark fruit notes, along with hints of spice, tobacco and liquorice. Full and rich on the finish.

Castellare di Castellina was born in 1968 from the consolidation of five farms. Castellare di Castellina was born of the union of four estates (Castellare, Caselle, San Niccolò and Le Case) on the initiative of Paolo Panerai, with the aim of producing wine of the best possible quality. This was in the 1970s, when the so-called Renaissance of Italian wine had begun. A Renaissance to which Castellare made its own contribution with a combination of tradition and innovation. Tradition in caring for its vineyards and terrains, distinguishing between fields and sodi (in which fields are the more easily worked terrains and sodi - "hard" soils - are the hardest but the best for growing vines), in its decision to continue producing wine according to the Tuscan method, and in its respect of the Chianti Classico denomination - only using indigenous Tuscan grape varieties to produce a wine that is internationally acknowledged as one of the greatest reds in the world.