Podere Le Boncie PODERE LE BONCIE 5 2022

Description

Podere Le Boncie 5 2022 is the little brother of “Le Trame”. Originally this wine was only sold in the cellar and was essentially created from the fruits of the younger vines. Giovanna Morganti recently acquired access to a vineyard 3 kilometers up the road from her home in San Felice, a hamlet of Castelnuovo Berardenga but just outside the Chianti Classico area. This new 1.3-hectare vineyard has very rocky calcareous soils facing south-south-west in a windy area that is good for the health of the vines: Sangiovese with two rows of Canaiolo.

The name of the wine “5” is due to the original composition of the wine, i.e. five classic types of grapes for the production of the best Chianti Classico: mainly Sangiovese with Colorino, Mammolo, Fogliatonda and Ciliegiolo which complete the quintet. Recently, the wine is no longer strictly composed of 5 grapes, but Giovanna says that the name also refers to the relative earliness of the wine, therefore a wine to “keep close at hand” [5 dita]. NNote also that vines have five leaves and flowers per bunch, that their home address is number 5, and that a 5 in school is a near miss. A little irony doesn’t hurt. Cinque is perhaps less structured than Le Trame but it is no less noble, carrying its mantle of the particular terroir born from the hills surrounding Castelnuovo Berardenga, wines of vigor and cut that sing the song of Sangiovese. The Cinque is fermented in steel and then spends a year in wooden vats of various sizes (from 5 to 30 hectoliters). It is then blended in the tank, left to rest for a while and finally bottled without fining or filtration purposes. Giovanna Morganti is fast becoming famous among the new generation of Tuscan winemakers. His small estate is only three hectares and his best-known wine is called “Le Trame” (the intrigues) to signify the exchanges needed to buy the land. Podere Le Boncie is located in the hamlet of San Felice, which in turn is located a few minutes north of Castelnuovo Berardenga, in the southern part of the Chianti Classico area. Giovanna studied oenology and began working in the mid-1980s for San Felice wines in Castelnuovo Berardenga, near Siena, on a project to plant some 300 traditional Tuscan grape varieties harvested from old vines. When Giovanna’s father gave her a small farm with olive groves, called Le Boncie, he added a vineyard planted with his favorites from the experimental project – Sangiovese, of course, but also Ciliegiolo, Colorino, Foglia tonda Mammolo and Prugnolo.

IThe vineyard, planted at a very high density of 7000 vines per hectare is mainly dedicated to Sangiovese (integrated by a few rows of Fogliatonda) and produces the company’s definitive wine: “Le Trame“. The work in the vineyard is conducted according to the general principles of the biodynamic movement. The harvest is manual. Fermentation takes place in traditional open-air wooden tanks. The elevation is long and quiet with an occasional racking implemented to aerate the wine. Aging takes place in medium-sized barrels; the wine is then left to age in the bottle for at least six months before being marketed.