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2020 Sangiovese
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Sangiovese, originally from Italy, is renowned for its bright red fruit flavors combined with spicy elements and subtle herbaceous notes and light, smooth tannins. At Wise Villa, our Sangiovese combines the best of European tradition and American fruitiness. 2020 was a cool vintage, allowing for full maturity of the grapes to intense flavors while retaining fresh acidity & fruit flavors. After hand-picking the grapes, we destemmed but left the berries whole, resulting in partial carbonic maceration (an internal metabolic fermmentation which produces candied fruit flavors). We then fermented this wine on the skins in stainless steel tanks at a cool temperature of 65F for 3 weeks, including a 3 day cold soak and extended maceration. This extended skin contact ensured good color, spice, and earthly flavor. We aged this wine on 35% new French and American oak and cherry. 100% sur lies aging and battonage (stirring of the yeast lees) contributed extra creamy, pastry flavors. The final wine is deep, rich and full of fruit, spice, and vanilla notes.
Wine Profile
| Vintage | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Sugar | 23.5 Brix |
| Acid | 6.4 g/L |
| PH | 3.54 |
| Aging | 10 months on full sur lies contact with monthly stirring |
| Alcohol % | 13.5 |
| Size | 750 ml |