2016 | Podere Poggio Scalette | Il Carbonaione

Description

Red Wine: 2016 | Podere Poggio Scalette | Il Carbonaione

Il Carbonaione is a full-bodied, rich wine with an exuberant personality and great aging potential. It has abundant aromas of red and dark berry fruits – tart cherries, blackberries, currants, and plums with notes of spice.

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Producer: Podere Poggio Scalette

Ratings: WA | 93WS | 97

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Sangiovese

Country/Region: Italy, Tuscany

Il Carbonaione is a full-bodied, rich wine with an exuberant personality and great aging potential. It has abundant aromas of red and dark berry fruits – tart cherries, blackberries, currants, and plums with notes of spice. On the palate, the wine is lush and full-bodied with flavors of berry fruits buoyed by focused tannins unfolding over a pleasant, lingering finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Vittorio Fiore’s 2016 Il Carbonaione is a robust expression of Sangiovese from a classic vintage. The wine is carefully balanced but also powerful at the same time, with bright cherry and wild berry aromas followed by tilled earth and garden herb. You also get lighter tones of licorice and tar at the back. Despite the opulence and generosity of the bouquet, the wine ultimately proves lean and elegantly streamlined in terms of mouthfeel.

• Wine Spectator: What a crazy nose of pure fruit, featuring pressed violets, lavender, dark plums, cherry compote, orange rind, lemon zest, boysenberries, vanilla, Thai basil and bay leaf. The fruit is so overt and generous, yet presented in an unimaginably sleek way, the firm tannins keeping it compact and silky throughout, while the tangy acidity cuts right through to the long, structured finish.

Producer Information

Podere Poggio Scalette is a Tuscan wine estate within the prized Chianti Classico region but better known for its Super Tuscan-style wines produced and released under the Alta Valle della Greve IGT title. Sangiovese is the dominant variety, although Merlot plays an important role in Scalette’s wines as well.Often simply referred to as Poggio Scalette, the estate was established in 1991 by Vittorio Fiore and Adriane Assjè, when they bought a disused farm.The winery and vineyards are in the hilly commune of Ruffoli, near the town of Greve in Chianti within the Chianti Classico region. While the estate remains best-known for its IGT releases, it also produces a Chianti Classico from 100 percent Sangiovese.The property was expanded in 1996 with the purchase of neighboring land, and again in 2007, ultimately adding more cellar space, winemaking facilities and vineyards.