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  • Country ranking ?

    235
  • Producer ranking ?

    21
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Seared duck with caramelised chicory

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The Story

Our Chardonnay is a top quality wine with great character traits. The wine originates from a mini-plot on the best slope and is produced only in very small amounts. The absolute attention to detail and meticulous screening and selection make this Chardonnay extremely distinctive. Proximity to the sea and the cool nights lend this wine its uniqueness and a suggestion of finesse worthy of a Burgundy.

Monteverro Chardonnay is bursting with sweet aromas of pear, honey, vanilla, apricot, and white chocolate. It is balanced by mild notes of white truffles and roasted nuts. The first sips are fresh revealing enticing stone fruit and citrus flavors of white peach and blood orange; the wine quickly evolves to showcase a complex white with excellent minerality and a lingering finish with hints of candied orange peel and marzipan. The wine undergoes 100% malolactic fermentation on fine lees and is then aged in 30% new French oak barrels and 70% egg-shaped concrete tanks for 14 months.

Blend: 100% Chardonnay

Denomination: IGT Toscana Chardonnay (Maremma, Tuscany)

Soil: Clay and limestone

Plantation: 7,575 vines/ha oriented east/west

Harvest: Handpicked and harvest date adapted to each section of the Chardonnay parcels

Winemaking: Each lot fermented separately Whole cluster pressing Natural fermentations Aging on fine lees 100% gravity

Aging: 50% spent 14 months in French oak barrels with 40% new oak, the remaining 50% aged in concrete eggs

Bottling: No fining, light filtration

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Wine Information

In Tuscany the winter rain is very important to refill the water table but winter 2011/2012 was one of the driest in Monteverro history. Tuscany had less than 250 mm of rain between October of 2011 and March of 2012. The average rainfall is normally about 600 mm. Because the soils were dry, they needed less time to warm up, and therefore, bud-break was quite early (March, 28th).

A dry spring led the vine to produce fewer and smaller berries. In addition, the average temperature was lower than normal which helped the vine limit its evaporation and transpiration. The summer followed the same pattern as the season with few rains and moderate temperatures. These conditions and low yields accelerated the ripening process and gave a great balance between acidity and fruit.

The Chardonnay was harvested on the 17th and 20th of August.

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Written Notes

Bright, green yellow colour. Intense, buttery nose with charming toastiness. Dry palate is gently dominated by new oak but still in elegant manner. Oak dominates still in the long and broad aftertaste. This wine shouts for creamy fatty fish dish or chicken. Great dish is herb-crusted chicken brest filled with pistachio butter.  

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Deep shiny gold with touches of lime green, the wine reveals on the nose an explosion of cedar, walnuts, honey, toasted bread, vanilla, honeysuckle with touches of pear, laurel, caramel and crème brulée. On the palate, the wine shows a fresh entrance lingering on lemon, brioche, pineapple with touches of quince and star fruit. Intense and profound, the wine represents well this solar vintage.

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Capalbio, Tuscany
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