CHIANTI CLASSICO RISERVA PIETRAIA
Product detailed description
Intense ruby red color. Well balanced smell with berries notes, blackberry, enriched by spicy notes and aromatic herbs. Good tannic flavour, silky and enveloping. Balanced, dry and spicy aftertaste
WINE VARIETAL: Sangiovese and Merlot
SOIL: Facing south-weast at an altitude of about 300 mt above sea level. Very rich in structure, Alberese stone prevails, calcareous, on a averagely clayey base.
VINIFICATION: In stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature, maceration on the skins for approximately 25/30 days.
MATURATION: In tonneaux and barrique of 1st passage for 24 months
REFINEMENT: In bottle for 4 months.
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 18°C
PAIRING: Grilled red meats, roast meat, game, aged Tuscan pecorino cheese.
Borratella Wine Farm
Villa Borratella is surrounded by its 5 hectares of Chianti Classico vineyards, 2 hectares of olive groves and 75 hectares of woods.
At an altitude of 350 meters above sea level, the grape variety mainly cultivated is Sangiovese and complementary also Cabernet and Merlot are grown; an excellent Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced from approximetely 200 olive trees.
Borratella collects about 300 quintals of grapes and gets, in its own cellar equipped with the most modern technologies, about 200 hl of wine destined to the bottling of Chianti Classico wine, Chianti Classico Riserva and IGT Super Tuscan.