Chianti Classico DOCG Gran Selezione "Badia a Passignano" 2017 Antinori

The best selection of the Badia Tenuta di Passignano boasts the best honor that guarantees and controls its Chianti Classico denomination. The grapes used for its winemaking is 100%pure Sangiovese. The area in which it is bred enjoys particular climatic conditions that impose a careful selection throughout the production process. A soft thinning of the bunches, the berries are selected manually at the table, with the aim of enhancing the quality of the product. This operation proved to be fundamental to guarantee a great potential for the processing of future westers. Alcoholic fermentation is then developed in about 10 days, following which the wines remained in maceration with the skins for a further 10 - 12 days. After the spinsing , the wines were immediately placed in Hungarian and in part French oak barriques to meet the malolactic fermentation, which is decorated spontaneously by the end of the year; After the labor, the wines, still separated on the basis of the origin of the vineyard, dealt with the refinement period in 300 lt and 225 lt Hungarian oak barriques, and partly also in 225 lt of French origin, for a period for a period of about 14 months. During this long phase, the different lots have been constantly tasted and controlled, so that they can be enhanced by the evolution in wood, and then be assembled in the final cut at the end of the aging period. The wine was then bottled and continued its maturation in the bottle for another 12 months.

• characteristics: the Chianti Classico Gran Selection Antinori of the Badia di Passignano winery is of Color intense ruby red, at the nose it has notes of ripe fruit, at times also overrun, with great respect for the variety and excellent maintenance of freshness. The notes of fruit and those typical of wood amalgamously blended in the balsamic and graphite notes. At the palate is rich with sweet and harmonious tannins albeit vibrant as it guarantees the typicality of the varietal. The persistence and the aftertaste, which refer to the fruity notes highlighted to the nose.
• combinations: perfect for roast-grilled meat, stewed red meat, game,

SIZE / WEIGHT: Bottles of 0,75 l

ORIGIN: Tuscany.

GRAPES: 100% Sangiovese.

ALCOHOL: 14% vol.

SERVING TEMPERATURE: temperature between 12/18 ° C.

STORAGE METHOD: in a cool place and far from the light of the sun.

SPECIFIC NOTES: contains sulphites.

PRODUCER: Marchesi Antinori - Badia a Passignano (FI).

estate Badia in Passignano

Badia in Passignano is located above Sambuca Val di Pesa, 3 km south of Tenuta Tignanello; Its 223 hectares, of which 65 vines extend to one of the most beautiful and vocate areas of Chianti Classico. Its fundamental importance in the history of Chianti is reported on hundreds of volumes, now kept in the State Archives of Florence, which give news of the vineyards of Sangiovese and the crops of the area. In confirmation of this, in 1983, in the surrounding land in Passignano a plant of millennial vitis vinifera was found. On the year of foundation of Badia there are discordant information: Pietro Aretino, in his biography of San Zanobi, says that the archbishop of Florence had founded the monastery of Passignano in 395, even if the monastery archives report only the year 891 . In 1049 Badia passed to the Vallombrosano order, a reformed branch of the Benedictines specialized in viticulture and silviculture. The chronicles of the monastery history report many suggestive events, including Galileo Galilei's stay in 1587-1588 as a mathematics teachers. Over the centuries, the monastery has been subjected to many restorations that have changed its appearance from time to time. The 65 hectares of vineyards, mainly grown in Sangiovese, extend on a soil rich in limestone rock with an average clay equipment at a height of about 300 meters above sea level.