Felsina, Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia other_regions_australia lifted and beautifully persistent

lifted and beautifully persistent

with bright red fruits and cigar box notes

to the muscular big-bodied flavors that possess fine mid-palate density on the intensely saline-inflected

22% of which were new

Reduction currently dominates the fruit but my sense is that it won’t last once the wine has been racked

Felsina, Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia other_regions_australia lifted and beautifully persistentThe 2007 Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia is another dazzling wine. This is a vintage of overt, sumptuous fruit and pure sexiness. Despite its richness, the 2007 never loses its sense of structure, but in this vintage the tannins are nearly buried by the huge fruit. Today the 2007 comes across as a hypothetical blend of the 2004 and 2006, with the finesse of the former and the size of the latter. Not a bad combination, to put it mildly. In the glass