Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 champagne-club working entirely by hand

working entirely by hand

and tropical fruit delights on the nose

The 2022 red version shows leather-tinged aromas and a fleshy mouthfeel that speaks to ripeness tempered by Côte de Beaune minerality

Only four main botanical flavors are used

in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps

Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 champagne-club working entirely by handPaolo Coccia has more than seventy harvests behind him, which is not a typo. His family sharecropped this hillside in Lamole from the early 1900s and finally bought it outright in 1962; today he farms it with his daughter Serena and an all female family crew. Lamole is the high, cool, sandy corner of Chianti Classico, and the wines it makes are the light footed, floral, red fruited kind rather than the muscular kind three and a half hectares of vines,