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Felsina Rancia Chianti Classico Riserva 2016

Reviews

97 -Decanter -

The south-facing Rancia vineyard reaches altitudes of 420 metres, overlooking the lower-lying vineyards of Colli Senesi. It boasts complex soils of calcareous clay layered with the chalky white limestone-like alberese and schistose galestro. This 2016 vintage is simply stunning. It's stately yet gracious, with personality for days, leading with a sumptuous nose of smoke, exotic spice and iron-rich earth. Ripe fruit coats the mouth yet it remains buoyant and tangy as chalky tannins charge in to frame the palate. A seductive wine with an appetising, savoury edge and a long, long life ahead.

96+ -Vinous -

The 2016 Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia is powerful, rich and explosive, with tremendous drive. Even so, several bottles have been quite closed. That is probably a very good sign for the long-term, but readers should not plan on touching a bottle anytime soon. A wine of vertical drive and aromatic nuance, the 2016 Rancia is super-complexed. Only with a few hours of air does it show the nuances and layers that were so evident from barrel. The 2016 is a painfully stubborn wine in the early going, but it will offer superb drinking pleasure for those who can wait.

96 -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

The 2016 Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia knocks it out of the park. Like the other new releases from Fèlsina, this pure expression of Sangiovese needs more time to evolve and improve with bottle age. But even at this young stage, you are made fully aware of the beautiful intensity and complexity of the quality fruit at its core. There is so much energy and tension here, further reinforced by the fresh acidity of the vintage. There are vibrant tones of wild cherry, raspberry and spice, followed up by white truffle and tilled earth.

96 -James Suckling -

95 -Wine Spectator -

94 -Wine Enthusiast -

Technical Details

Blend 100% Sangiovese
Winemaker Franco Bernabei
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Appellation Chianti
Vineyard Poggio a Rancia Estate Vineyard, 6.25 hectares situated in Castelnuovo Berardenga at an altitude of 400 to 420 meters
Farming Method Organic practices certified by ICEA, (Istituto di Certificazione Etica e Ambientale, Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification)
Oak a mix of new and second-fill French oak
Fermentation Maceration and indigenous yeast fermentation in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. Malolactic fermentation completed in barrel. Gravity-flow winemaking
Aging / Cooperage 18-20 months in a mix of new and second-fill French oak
Alcohol 13.5%
Production 3,800 cases

Felsina Rancia Chianti Classico Riserva 2016

Name: Felsina Rancia Chianti Classico Riserva 2016
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1015097
Price: 59.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Sangiovese | Tuscany

DC97, VN96+, WA96, JS96, WS95, WE94

Organic practices certified by ICEA, (Istituto di Certificazione Etica e Ambientale, Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification)

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$59.95

750ML

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The Rancia vineyard takes its name from the historic Rancia farmhouse, once a Benedictine monastery in the Castelnuovo Berardenga subzone of Chianti Classico, at elevations between 400 and 420 meters on southwest-facing alberese limestone and galestro marl soils. The Poggiali family purchased the Felsina estate in 1966, and Giovanni Poggiali has built it into one of the most reliable and serious producers in the denomination, farming 75 hectares of vineyards dedicated primarily to Sangiovese and producing wines known for their ageworthy nature and remarkable consistency. The Rancia has been the estate's flagship since its first vintage in 1983, sourced exclusively from the Poggio a Rancia site, aged in barrique for up to 20 months, and bottled only in vintages that can support the structure and complexity the wine demands. The 2016 is one of the finest Rancias ever made. Decanter awarded 97, Vinous 96+, Wine Advocate 96, and James Suckling 96, with Wine Spectator at 95 and Wine Enthusiast at 94. Antonio Galloni described it as powerful, rich, and explosive, with tremendous drive and a beautiful complexity of wild cherry, white truffle, and tilled earth that was still quite closed at release and needs more time to fully reveal itself. A wine for the patient collector at a price that is extraordinary for this level of critical recognition. Grab it now.

About The Producer

It was 1966 when Domenico Poggiali Felsina took the courageous leap and bought the estate at a time when Italian viticulture was struggling. In the second half of the 1970s Giuseppe Mazzocolin entered the family business paving the way for the beginnings of their international recognition. Their friendship with Luigi Veronelli and collaboration with oenologist Franco Bernabei shaped a developmental strategy that has proven itself extremely coherent, starting with the wines of 1983, the first year of Fontalloro and of Rancia. With Domenico and Giuseppe Poggiali at the helm, an extraordinary development began which, since 1990, also includes Giovanni Poggiali, the oldest of Giuseppe's three sons.

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