Fèlsina FELSINA BERARDENGA Chianti Classico Riserva 2020

Description

The Felsina Chianti Classico Riserva presents a beautiful mix of minerals, fruit, dried mint and eucalyptus. The wine shows an elegant evolution in the glass, supported by dry and smooth tannins. An extraordinary bottle at a reasonable price

It was 1966 when Domenico Poggialini bought the Felsina property in the Berardenga area in the extreme south of the Chianti Classico denomination.

At that time the company existed mainly for the production of oil, cereals and other crops. There were just 2.5 hectares of vineyards and while Domenico and his son Beppe worked hard to expand the vineyards and the cellar during the first years, it was only with the arrival of Giuseppe Mazzacolin following his marriage to Domenico’s daughter , Gloria, that Felsina took flight.

With Mazzacolin also came Bernabei’s oenological consultancy and the need to focus on Sangiovese as the company’s main grape variety, contrary to the fashion of the period which saw reliance on Bordeaux vines.

The wines of Felsina are children of their terroir which is very varied. The soils can be clayey-sandy with marine deposits or stony (alberese) and poor.

The result is an exciting palette of Chianti Classicos which have in common a generous body, great complexity and always clearly perceptible notes of fruit and undergrowth