2018 Castello di Volpaia Coltassala Chianti Classico
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Here's another very interesting wine from Volpaia that has since been moved up to Grand Selezione status. The 2018 Chianti Classico Riserva Coltassala (with 9,000 bottles made) is 95% Sangiovese and 5% Mammolo. Initially, the wine puts forward an elegant and streamlined personality, but it quickly takes on volume with dark fruit layering and sweet spice. This vintage offers an especially focused or sharp personality that bodes well for its future bottle evolution.
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Jancis Robinson MW
James Suckling
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The 2018 Chianti Classico Riserva Coltassala is marked by a riper fruit profile than is common here, along with more overt sweetness and oak influence. There is plenty of depth, but less in the way of Sangiovese typicity. Chocolate, sweet spice and leather are front and center. This is an especially bombastic style that is more about intensity than finesse. Some readers may enjoy it more than I do.
Wonderful perfumes and freshness with cut flowers, citrus and dark berries. Violets, too. Full-bodied and layered with gorgeous fruit and clarity. Hints of bark and stone. Some conifer, too. Racy and long. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
Radda in Chianti. 95% Sangiovese, 5% Mammolo. Certified organic and tank-fermented. Firm glowing deep garnet colour. Delicate and lifted with fine texture but not the most typically Tuscan wine in the world. There seems to be the sweetness of French oak overlaying the fruit. A suave lounge lizard rather than a son of the soil? (JR)