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Cigliano di Sopra Chianti Classico 2021

from Tuscany, S.Casciano Val de Pesa UGA, Italy, Chianti Classico

$71

$68ea in any 3+
$65ea in any 6+

Description

Harmony, balance, grape first, fun wine.

Energetic fruit. Fine, long, linear tannins run the length fo the palate. Red fruit, sour cherry with an earthy twist. Juicy, crunchy, fresh, thirsty quenching with a nice bit of development.

A bloody tasty expression of Sangiovese. It shows a hell of a lot of comfort and clarity of thought in their winemaking from this young duo.

Buy a straight 6 pack we’ll throw in a bottle of Cigliano EVOO while stocks last.

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. This is a thrilling discovery.

Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate 94 Points

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Why is this Wine so Yummy?

About Cigliano di Sopra

Fattoria Cigliano di Sopra is an historic complex surrounded by 32 hectares of land extending over the hills of Chianti Classico, in the San Casciano area of Val di Pena.

The Cigliano di Sopra estate is situated in the highest part of the Cigliano area and comprises the historic Cigliano Villa, with its centuries-old park, Italian gardens and collection of citrus trees, and three farmhouses, two of which – Casa delle Fiabe and Casa Bulleri – have been converted into agriturismo holiday cottages. Finally, there is the Church of San Zanobi in Casciano, where the owners were married and their children baptised.

The estate’s 32 hectares include eight hectares under vine, from which we get the grapes for our winery, and 17 hectares of olive trees, from which we make our own extra virgin olive oil. The remaining seven hectares are parkland and woods. The historic Cigliano Villa, at the centre of the complex, is home to the owners who maintain and preserve this long-established estate.

I feel like a new benchmark for fine wine is being set by Maddalena Fucile and Matteo Vaccari of Cigliano di Sopra in San Casciano Val di Pesa. These young winemaking colleagues studied enology together in Florence and both worked with Sashi Moorman and Rajat Parr at Domaine de la Côte in California and at other prestigious wine estates in Italy. Winemaking is hands-on and artisanal in the stone underground cellar of Maddalena’s family Tuscan villa. Farming is organic and biodynamic, and I want to underline the sheer excitement I feel for these wines and this promising up-and-coming estate.

Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate

Matteo Vaccari and Maddalena Fucile may be young, but their winemaking expertise surpasses those well beyond their years. After graduating with a degrees in Viticulture and Oenology from the University of Florence in 2017, the duo honed their winemaking crafts locally at Tuscany’s Tenuta degli Dei and Fontodi (Matteo) and Isole e Olena (Maddalena). After conquering Italy, the pair knew it was time to set their sites abroad.

Both Matteo and Maddalena worked alongside 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 (Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon). Maddalena ultimately returned home to her family’s fattoria, Cigliano di Sopra, and brought a breath of fresh air to the nearly abandoned estate. She restored old vineyards around the property through organic and biodynamic farming, and upon Matteo’s arrival, the duo’s shared passion for honest viticulture and minimalist winemaking pushed the estate’s production to a whole new level of excellence.

In the Vineyard

Sandy-clay soils rich in limestone dominate the vineyards, all of which are organically farmed with biodynamic principles.

In the Winery

Fruit for this Chianti Classico is hand-harvested and hand-sorted to ensure that only the best berries make the cut. Matteo and Maddalena use a light hand in the cellar to allow the terroir to speak for itself.

“[Our motto is] be delicate and let the wine express its own character,”

Matteo Vaccari

Spontaneously fermented in steel tanks. Long pump-overs were executed twice per day during the first half of fermentation, then gradually reduced throughout its duration (approx. 25 days)
Aged for 14 months in large French oak barrels with light racking followed by one month in steel tanks prior to bottling

Where in the World is Cigliano di Sopra?

Cigliano di Sopra is in San Casciano Val de Pesa UGA in the north of Chianti Classico. Visit the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico site that has an incredible visual resource exploring each UGA.

94 Points

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. This is a thrilling discovery.

Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate

Where in the world does the magic happen?

Fattoria Cigliano di Sopra, Via Cigliano, San Casciano In Val di Pesa, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

S.Casciano Val de Pesa UGA
Chianti Classico
Tuscany
Italy

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