Cecchi Villa Cerna Chianti Classico Riserva 2010

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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2010

Size
750ML

ABV
13.5%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Lively, ruby-red color, tending to garnet with age. On the nose, delicate aromas of violet and iris. On the palate, the wine is rich and elegant, with black-cherry and tobacco flavors with supple tannins and nice acidity on the finish.

Pairs well with grilled meats, roasts, cheeses.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    Fragrant with fresh black cherry and pomegranate scents, this shifts from bright, sunny fruit toward dark-roast tannins, lasting on notes of grilled mushrooms and earth before vibrant fruit comes back at the end. The blend includes sangiovese (90 percent) and colorino from estate vineyards in Castellina in Chianti.
  • 91
    A Chianti Classico with firm tannins and plenty of juicy fruit. Full-bodied, meaty, long and intense.
  • 90
    Like biting into a fresh cherry, this is ripe and sweet, with accents of spice, leather and earth. Stays balanced and focused through the lingering finish. Drink now through 2020.
  • 90
    The 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva Villa Cerna is a meat-friendly and darkly concentrated wine with sour cherry, espresso and toasted almond. The wine is tight and linear with a clear tannic vein at the back. There's a good amount of growing room ahead. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2022.

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Cecchi

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Cecchi, Italy
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In 1893, after several years of experience as an assistant in the cellars of the most famous commercial vineyards in the area, Luigi Cecchi set up his own business as a wine taster and broker. His efforts were soon rewarded with success, extending beyond the region of Siena. Over the years, Luigi's other three sons, Mariano, Natale and Francesco started working with their father, and from 1919 onwards rapidly established their reputation in almost every region of Italy. In 1948, his son Luigi entered the company, due to his father's premature death. Since 1953 he has run the company himself.

In the 1970s, Cecchi moved to the borough of Castellina in Chianti, an area which has traditionally produced Chianti Classico. In its cellar, equipped with the latest technology, the final part of the production cycle is carried out. The fermentation operations are carried out at the four commercial vineyards distributed in famous DOC zones in Tuscany and Umbria: Villa Cerna in the Chianti Classico region, Castello di Montauto at San Gimignano, Val delle Rose near Grosseto, and Tenuta Alzatura at Montefalco, in Umbria. Since 2004, following the death of Luigi, his sons Cesare and Andrea, along with their mother Anita, have run the company with enthusiasm and passion.

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Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.

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Chianti Classico Wine

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One of the first wine regions anywhere to be officially recognized and delimited, Chianti Classico is today what was originally defined simply as Chianti. Already identified by the early 18th century as a superior zone, the official name of Chianti was proclaimed upon the area surrounding the townships of Castellina, Radda and Gaiole, just north of Siena, by Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany in an official decree in 1716.

However, by the 1930s the Italian government had appended this historic zone with additonal land in order to capitalize on the Chianti name. It wasn’t until 1996 that Chianti Classico became autonomous once again when the government granted a separate DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) to its borders. Ever since, Chianti Classico considers itself no longer a subzone of Chianti.

Many Classicos are today made of 100% Sangiovese but can include up to 20% of other approved varieties grown within the Classico borders. The best Classicos will have a bright acidity, supple tannins and be full-bodied with plenty of ripe fruit (plums, black cherry, blackberry). Also common among the best Classicos are expressive notes of cedar, dried herbs, fennel, balsamic or tobacco.

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