Ugo Contini Bonacossi IGT BIO 2016, Tenuta di Capezzana

Tenuta di Capezzana · Carmignano

Ugo Contini Bonacossi IGT BIO 2016, Tenuta di Capezzana

100% SangioveseIGT
93/100 James Suckling
92/100 Monica Larner, Robert Parker
$115.00 SGD

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At a glance

Drinking window
2023-2045
ABV
14.0%
Appellation
IGT
Food pairing
Chicken tikka, tomato-braised pork, lamb kebab, mushroom risotto, eggplant parmigiana, duck ragu
Tasting notes

"Lots of ripe berry and cherry character with chocolate, walnut and spice undertones. It's full-bodied with an intense, juicy finish. Needs time to come together. Better after 2022." 93/100, James Suckling, Aug 2020

"This wine represents a special selection of organic Sangiovese. The Tenuta di Capezzana 2016 Ugo Contini Bonacossi shows great balance and harmony with highly distinctive varietal aromas. It opens to wild berry, cherry, pressed violet and earth. However, these aromas are slightly darker or heavier in character, keeping in line with the distinctive qualities of a growing region located west of Florence toward the Tyrrhenian Sea. This expression saw 4,939 bottles made." 92/100, Monica Larner, Robert Parker, Dec 2020

The wine & Estate
This pure Sangiovese comes from the Viticciana vineyard. This vineyard was commissioned by Patriarch of the family, Ugo Contini Bonacossi who also had a hand in design and build. It has the characteristic of having the rows interrupted by two "gabled" roads, counter-sloping, which channel rainwater and avoid the erosion of the precious earth. The rows are embellished with rose plants chosen by him and lovingly watered in summer. Perfect exposure. The grapes are harvested by hand.

The producer

Tenuta di Capezzana Carmignano, Italy

Winemaking at Carmignano is almost as old as wine itself — Etruscan artefacts point to vineyards here 3,000 years ago, and a 9th-century parchment records vines and olives on the Capezzana estate over 1,200 years ago. In 1716 Cosimo III de' Medici named Carmignano one of Tuscany's superior wine zones.

Carmignano's growers were blending Sangiovese with Cabernet Sauvignon in the 18th century — long before the 'Super Tuscan' movement made the practice famous. Capezzana, farmed by the Contini Bonacossi family since 1920, is the estate that carries this legacy.

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