Features
Name:
Tenuta Perano Chianti Classico DOCG 2020
Terrain:
marl, clays and Pliocene sands
Cellar
Commitment to viticulture and agriculture in general, these are the strengths of the Frescobaldi family, which has been producing wine in Tuscany for seven hundred years, precisely since the early 14th century. The family also counts among its ancestors illustrious men of letters, explorers, musicians, bankers, bishops and politicians. The archive holds numerous ancient documents and the records include commercial contracts with many European courts from the 13th century onwards. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Florentine house supplied wines to the Court of England and many European countries, including the Papal Court. Even earlier, the Frescobaldi maintained relations and business contacts with the workshops of various famous artists including Donatello, Michelozzo Michelozzi and Filippo Brunelleschi.
Around the year 1000, the first members of the family moved to Florence from Val di Pesa, where we still find the Castiglioni Estate, the oldest agricultural estate of the family. At that time, the cities of central-northern Italy were becoming economically, politically and militarily stronger, to the detriment of feudal power; the lords in fact became urbanised, attracted and flattered by the commercial and political advantages that the cities offered.
The Frescobaldi settled in the Oltrarno part of the city in Piazza de' Frescobaldi where they built the loggia, tower and palace. In 1252, Lamberto Frescobaldi built the first wooden bridge over the Arno, now called Ponte Santa Trinita so as to connect his possessions with the ancient centre of Florence.
With great openness towards the future, the ancestors introduced then unknown grape varieties to Tuscany in 1855, including Carbernet Sauvignon, Merlot Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
The 20th century was characterised by the actions of Vittorio, Ferdinando and Leonardo Frescobaldi, who made an important contribution to elevating Tuscany to a place of excellence for viticulture.
Today, Lamberto Frescobaldi has picked up the baton, who, on the strength of his long technical experience, aims to further strengthen the uniqueness of the wines of each family estate.
Description
Chianti Classico Tenuta Perano originates on the hills of Gaiole in Chianti, from vineyards located 500 metres above sea level. The south-south-west exposure and above all the amphitheatre shape of the vineyards favour sunshine and concentrate heat. The combination of altitude, exposure, configuration and slope of the vineyards represent an extraordinary qualitative uniqueness, giving the wines a brilliant violet colour, intense fruity aromas and great tannic structure, permeated with an elegant vibration.
Organoleptic characteristics:
To the eye it presents itself with a splendid clear ruby red colour. The nose begins with fruity notes of berries and other red fruits such as cherry and plum. The floral aspects are very evident and, as always, dominated by distinct hints of violets and wild roses. This is followed by a spicy imprint with cloves and cardamom, the olfactory finish is fresh and balsamic. The entry in the mouth is mineral and rightly tannic, crisp and clean on the palate, freshness and minerality impose themselves in the gustatory finish. Good olfactory taste correspondence and long intense aromatic persistence.
Storage time:
10 years
Vinification
Harvested by hand, the grapes were vinified in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. Maceration on the skins with controlled and careful pumping over allowed a perfect extraction of the polyphenolic substances, capable of giving the right colour intensity and typical structure.
Acknowledgements
2020 Wine Spectator 88/99
2020 Luca Maroni 94/100
2019 Veronelli 91/100
2020 James Suckling 93/100
