IR11019

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Duca di Saragnano 2019



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75cl ALC 13.5%

Intense colour, full nose with black fruits, spice and tobacco, rich silky fruit with morello cherries and red fruit on the finish, which is long and sweet. Ripe tannins give balance.


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Italy, Italy, Tuscany

Still Red

Sangiovese and Canaiolo

Full-bodied

Drink Now

2019

13.5%

75cl

Barbanera

"The family firm of Barbanera is situated in the beautiful south-eastern corner of Tuscany in a district known as the Colli Senesi. They are near the town of Montepulciano, the home of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, and some of their best vineyards are within this appellation, the rest lying in the rolling hills below the imposing Monte (Mt) Cetona.

Framed by majestic and ancient olive trees the ultra-smart façade of the new building, at Barbanera’s head office in Cetona, backs onto their bottling plant and the original warehouse from the company’s early years. Founded in 1938 by Altero and Maria Franceschini, their grandsons Marco and Paolo Barbanera started as wine bottlers in 1978 and then diversified into producing their own wine. Today it is a dynamic, modern winery with state-of-the-art bottling technology which exports all over the world. Finished in 2017 the winery nestles in vineyards a short drive away, boasting shiny stainless steel and refrigerated tanks that use an inbuilt pipe system to keep the grapes fresh, all fed by gravity to minimise stress on the fruit. Grapes brought to the winery have been either basket harvested by hand or machine harvested. Their portfolio is extensive, ranging from wines made exclusively in stainless steel through to structured barrique aged examples, and of those for immediate enjoyment some are made in the Appassite and Governo styles. Once finished and ready for bottling, wines see only a micro-filtration to remove yeasts/sediments while retaining maximum character and undergo stringent tests in their dedicated on-site lab to ensure the very highest quality is being constantly maintained. A continuing programme of investment in equipment, space and above, all people, is the secret behind the impressive improvement in quality, value-for-money and consequent rapid growth in the last few years."

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Vintage guide

Last year’s vintage, 2023, proved complicated, good in the north but in central and southern regions, more tricky resulting in one of the smallest vintages of recent years. A dry winter followed by a hot summer has certainly affected yields in 2022, but the quality looks excellent across the country. Small but perfectly formed seems to sum up the 2021 vintage here. Across most of the country the 2020 vintage is looking very good indeed with ripe fruit and lovely aromatics. A classic if not straight forward vintage 2019 has delivered some excellent wines but in smaller quantity. Overall, the results are very good in 2018, though a warm wet early summer led to disease pressures in many parts of the country. The Northeast, home to Prosecco amongst others did particularly well; so too did Tuscany and Piedmont but yields were a little down in some estates. 2017 saw a small crop of excellent wines; spring frosts and a later heatwave nicknamed ‘Lucifer’ reduced yields, but you’ll find good results on the whole with excellent results in Piedmont. Yields were down in 2016 but quality is high, Piedmont and Tuscany at least as good as 2015. 2015 is generally an excellent vintage across Italy, perhaps reds having the edge over whites.

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