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Chiara Condello, Predappio Sangiovese

Romagna, Italy 2019 (750mL)
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Chiara Condello, Predappio Sangiovese

Sangiovese from the town of Predappio, in the Emilia-Romagna region, is very much a thing right now. It hardly came out of nowhere, as this is a time-tested terroir for the grape, but a critical mass of outstanding wines—many of them from young, upstart vintners like Chiara Condello—has the Italian wine world buzzing. Keep in mind that Condello didn’t just fall out of the sky into some vineyards in Romagna: Her family produces wine in Predappio under the Condé label, but Chiara maintains her own cellar and farms her own vineyards. She has seven hectares of land in total, of which 4.8 are planted to Sangiovese, which she farms organically. The broader growing zone that includes Predappio is southeast of Bologna, in the foothills of the Apennines, fanning out from the town of Forlì. 


This is mesmerizing Sangiovese of uncommonly silky texture. It has all the lively energy the variety is known for, but where so many others are tart and “grippy,” this one absolutely glides across the palate like a Pinot Noir from Burgundy. In the glass, it shines a deep garnet-red moving to pink at the rim, with aromas of small red woodland berries jumping out first, followed by waves of black and red cherry, wild strawberry, dried orange peel, violets, tomato leaf, black pepper, and underbrush. It is medium-bodied and truly refined—a silken pleasure through and through, albeit with enough energy and cut to ignite the salivary response. 

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Italy

Northwestern Italy

Piedmont

Italy’s Piedmont region is really a wine “nation”unto itself, producing world-class renditions of every type of wine imaginable: red, white, sparkling, sweet...you name it! However, many wine lovers fixate on the region’s most famous appellations—Barolo and Barbaresco—and the inimitable native red that powers these wines:Nebbiolo.

Tuscany

Chianti

The area known as “Chianti” covers a major chunk of Central Tuscany, from Pisa to Florence to Siena to Arezzo—and beyond. Any wine with “Chianti” in its name is going to contain somewhere between 70% to 100% Sangiovese, and there are eight geographically specific sub-regions under the broader Chianti umbrella.

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