Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 CRV Separate macerations of Alpine botanicals

Separate macerations of Alpine botanicals in grain-neutral spirit and wine create a layered flavor profile: fresh fig

before launching this project with his wife Rebeca Montero in 2019

This is distinctly smooth

This wine is sublime young

Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 CRV Separate macerations of Alpine botanicalsPaolo Coccia has more than seventy harvests behind him, which is not a typo. His family sharecropped this hillside in Lamole from the early 1900s and finally bought it outright in 1962; today he farms it with his daughter Serena and an all female family crew. Lamole is the high, cool, sandy corner of Chianti Classico, and the wines it makes are the light footed, floral, red fruited kind rather than the muscular kind three and a half hectares of vines,