Tasting notes and Review
"After a rainy spring and a warm summer, some rainy days were registered in September. In the following weeks, good weather allowed the grapes to properly ripen. This wine seems to be focused on green notes, with sage and minty notes on the nose combined with raspberry and truffle flavours, and a slightly bitter finish with moderate acidity. It doesn’t lack sweetness of fruit, with silky hints of peach." - 89/100, Aldo Fiordelli, Decanter, Oct 2020
About the Wine & the Estate
The best bottles one could hope to find for a celebration for a year are those that largely stay in the producers cellars for majority of their life untouched. While technological advances over the last two decades mean even some of the smaller producers are now able to produce age worthy wines provided they own land in such a terroir, this wasn't always the case. When you go back 30-40 years, with majority of the land farmed by peasant farmers, there weren't a lot of wineries in the old world in Italy and France with the financial and technological means to make a great bottle, have the ability to control and reduce the yield without losing their daily bread, and have the place and ability to store bottles for decades. The Contini Bonacossi family was one such passionate group who used their legacy and love for wines to sink roots in the land of Carmignano, Tuscany known to produce great wines since 804 AD.
When a rare opportunity arose where the winery allowed us ordering of the back vintages from their cellars, we scooped up the bottles from all the years we thought Tuscany and Capezzana's flagship excelled. These 1977s are from those bottles.
Villa di Capezzana was first produced in 1925 as a super tuscan blend and has continued to earn admiration from the world over for it's incredibly long ageing. Having had the privilege of trying out 80 yr old bottles from the winery which were beautifully, when the opportunity presented, we thought these would be the kind of bottles our customers would love to buy and open for their big milestones.
A blend of 80% Sangiovese and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon is aged for over a year in tonneaux and around another 12 months in bottle. These wines stayed in the producer cellars for 44yrs before landing on the shores of Singapore early 2021. Now resting in our cellars. Very limited stock.
"After a rainy spring and a warm summer, some rainy days were registered in September. In the following weeks, good weather allowed the grapes to properly ripen. This wine seems to be focused on green notes, with sage and minty notes on the nose combined with raspberry and truffle flavours, and a slightly bitter finish with moderate acidity. It doesn’t lack sweetness of fruit, with silky hints of peach." - 89/100, Aldo Fiordelli, Decanter, Oct 2020
About the Wine & the Estate
The best bottles one could hope to find for a celebration for a year are those that largely stay in the producers cellars for majority of their life untouched. While technological advances over the last two decades mean even some of the smaller producers are now able to produce age worthy wines provided they own land in such a terroir, this wasn't always the case. When you go back 30-40 years, with majority of the land farmed by peasant farmers, there weren't a lot of wineries in the old world in Italy and France with the financial and technological means to make a great bottle, have the ability to control and reduce the yield without losing their daily bread, and have the place and ability to store bottles for decades. The Contini Bonacossi family was one such passionate group who used their legacy and love for wines to sink roots in the land of Carmignano, Tuscany known to produce great wines since 804 AD.
When a rare opportunity arose where the winery allowed us ordering of the back vintages from their cellars, we scooped up the bottles from all the years we thought Tuscany and Capezzana's flagship excelled. These 1977s are from those bottles.
Villa di Capezzana was first produced in 1925 as a super tuscan blend and has continued to earn admiration from the world over for it's incredibly long ageing. Having had the privilege of trying out 80 yr old bottles from the winery which were beautifully, when the opportunity presented, we thought these would be the kind of bottles our customers would love to buy and open for their big milestones.
A blend of 80% Sangiovese and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon is aged for over a year in tonneaux and around another 12 months in bottle. These wines stayed in the producer cellars for 44yrs before landing on the shores of Singapore early 2021. Now resting in our cellars. Very limited stock.