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Unveiling the elite: Arillo's remarkable new vintages and the debut of Chianti Classico Gran Selezione'

Unveiling the elite: Arillo's remarkable new vintages and the debut of Chianti Classico Gran Selezione

In the first few months of the year, the focus is on the introduction and launch of the new vintages, the so-called 'dèblocage'. For Arillo in Terrabianca, the start has been very promising, with all our wines easily exceeding the 90 point threshold, thus entering the elite of the last qualitative segment, i.e. that final 10% that goes from 90 to 100 points.

The leading wines are Campaccio, Sacello, Poggio Croce and, this year, the first vintage of the Gran Selezione. The latter is a top quality production from a special vineyard, with a limited number of bottles available and an artistic label.

The Gran Selezione "Terrabianca" stems from a Cru planted over forty years ago with a mono-clone of Sangiovese [T19]. The position and exposure of the vineyard give it unique and unrepeatable climatic conditions, resulting in a wine of great concentration. It ages for about 20 months in medium-toast French oak tonneaux. Harvest in mid-October.