The honey and toasted hazelnut are recognisable
and mineral where you'd expect brawn
showing vanilla
La Tourtine is where Mourvèdre reveals its true majesty—from a carefully tended 5
from early drought to a soaking September
Caparsa Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino 2021 Author DK The honey and toasted hazelnutCaparsino is Paolo Cianferoni's top Riserva the more refined of his two single vineyard bottlings, drawn from older vines on alberese, galestro, clay, and sand at around 450 meters in Radda. After spontaneous fermentation in cement, it ages roughly fifteen months in large 18hL oak casks, the kind of patient elevage that lets terroir, not wood, do the talking. Expect macerated dark cherry, pine, lavender, and a thread of espresso, with the cool climate