Fattoria Cigliano di Sopra Vigneto Branca, Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG, Italy 2021 Rioja and fresh flowers

and fresh flowers

offering notes of fresh wildflowers

The vineyards face north and it's one of the last to be harvested

a more obscure site in a cool valley that’s just south and west of Keller’s home base in Flörsheim-Dalsheim

and the vinification is traditional — little destemming and a 15-day fermentation

Fattoria Cigliano di Sopra Vigneto Branca, Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG, Italy 2021 Rioja and fresh flowersDespite its historical proximity to Florence and its role in making some of the most well known Tuscan wines of the last century, San Casciano in Val di Pesa is not necessarily an appellation of Chianti Classico that leaps to mind. Perhaps this is because it has in recent decades been dominated by large producers who bought fruit, thus neutralizing differences in terroir and in the cellar. Or because it is lower lying, with soils that tend to defy the