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  • Country ranking ?

    15
  • Producer ranking ?

    1
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    2026-2040
  • Food Pairing

    Roasted wild boar, grilled duck confit & hard cheeses

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The Story

La Ricolma is made from 100% Merlot grapes especially seclected from prime vineyards and hand-picked when perfectly mature. It is fermented in stainless steel tanks for about 18 days, then racked and pressed. After it is racked once again, the wine is left to mature for 20-22 months in French oak barriques. It is bottled and held  for another 6 months before being released.

In 1991 they planted the first 1,000 Merlot vines in their vineyard...

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Wine Information

Classification: Red wine I.G.T. Toscana

Grapes: Merlot 100%

Harvest: 21st and 22nd September 2018 - 3rd and 4th October 2018 

Yield per plant: 1 Kg

Length of fermentation and maceration on the skins : 15 days

Wood-ageing: 22 months in french barriques (Allier, Nevers) of 225 liters

Bottled: 9th February 2021

Production: n. 5.994 bottles of 750 ml, n.315 Magnum of 1500 ml, n.33 Double Magnum of 3000 ml

Analysis: 

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Sexy and decidedly brilliant and modern in the sensory profile, alternating with gentle notes of lavender, hyacinth, wild violet, plums, crushed bluenerries, sour cherries, juniper berries and white pepper. Full bodied, silky, fine grain tannins, precise and prefectly blended in the matrix and a juicy, concentrated finale which lights up every sip and makes it alive and extremely pleasant. A gentle caress that is impossible to resist. 22 months refinement in French oak of which about 35% is new. Better from 2023. A perfect wine, a divine wine.

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Origin

Gaiole in Chianti, Tuscany

Grapes

100% Merlot

Drinking temperature

17-18C
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