Cigliano di Sopra Chianti Classico 2023 SCCOS oak is used as seasoning

oak is used as seasoning rather than the main act

Equal parts Carignane

food-friendly red that punches well above its station

The result is a purer

complex companion for aperitif hour

Cigliano di Sopra Chianti Classico 2023 SCCOS oak is used as seasoningMaddalena Fucile and Matteo Vaccari graduated from agronomy school in Florence in 2017, worked harvests in Tuscany, California and Oregon, then came back to take over her family's estate in San Casciano in Val di Pesa. The place goes back to the fourteenth century and, until 2016, sold its wine in bulk. They've turned it into something else entirely: seven hectares of vines farmed organically with biodynamic practices, Sangiovese handled with a light