Fèlsina FELSINA I SISTRI Chardonnay di Toscana 2022

Description

The name of Fèlsina I Sistri Chardonnay derives from a musical instrument from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. The instrument and its music were dedicated to the cult of Isis, the goddess of agriculture and birth.

This splendid Chardonnay presents itself in the glass with a soft, luminous golden color. Great character and aromatic intensity thanks to the quality of the fruit. Alternating warmer hints of peach, pear and apricot, but also fresher tones of mint and almond. Twelve months in barrique give it a pleasant creamy sensation on the finish.

It was 1966 when Domenico Poggialini bought the Felsina property in the Berardenga district in the extreme south of the Chianti Classico appellation. 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 few 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 vine as opposed to the fashion of the period which saw relying on Bordeaux vines. Felsina wines 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 Classico which have in common a generous body, great complexity and notes of fruit and undergrowth that are always clearly perceptible