Piemaggio Chianti Classico 'Le Fioraie' 2022

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Piemaggio Chianti Classico 'Le Fioraie' 2022A blend of 90% Sangiovese with 10% Canaiolo, Ciliegiolo, and Colorino, Piemaggios flagship Chianti Classico ferments spontaneously in stainless steel during a 3 week maceration, and spends two years aging in a combination of concrete tanks and previously used wooden casksmainly 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak, with some 500 liter French oak employed as well. Utterly textbook in character, it combines earth, bright fruit, and tangy acidity, with notable

penetrating focus on the palate

so the wine has no trouble undergoing spontaneous primary fermentation

“Les Gosses” derives from a French term for “little children” (monsters in their own right

and a salty

Pierre refers to this wine as “le chat“

Like the other “cru” Barolo

and is more fine and elegant than the other Trousseaux in our portfolio and is less rustic than Crinquand’s Ploussard

lifted tannins here

It seems to occupy its own aesthetic space

before being bottled without fining or filtering

Both richer and more taut than the Rotgipfler Anning

and 1971—embodies that personality full-stop