15th
Sangiovese Press
This post is delayed due to all sorts of goodness in the wine world that was keeping us from our blog.
On October 11 the Sangio was pressed! And what a fabulous event that was. First, the color of the sanio was phenomenal! Emi is brilliant (as it was her idea to let the grapes macerate for longer, thus, more contact with the skins and juice, thus extracting more color). Ariane named it “purple rain” as it was coming through the press.
Second, the flavor - knock your socks off! Cranberry, a little smoke, some tartness and depth in the flavor. Mmmmmm. It is going to be amazing! The temptation to grab the second barrel so that we have two potential super tuscans play with is huge.
The barrel - for the sangio we went with a zebra barrel so as not to have too much oak coming through. This barrel was created by putting half a new barrel and half a neutral barrel together - other zebras can be done with alternating slats.
We are so looking forward to seeing how this one develops. Stay tuned.
See the previous post for the photo link.
