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Viaswine Newsletter & Pricing VIAS MONTHLY 1 NEWSLETTER & PRICING | ISSUE XXXIV | SEPTEMBER 2020 | NATIONAL VIAS IMPORTS LTD. 875 6TH AVE SUITE 1500 NEW YORK, NY 10001 | 212-629-0200 | VIASWINE.COM | @VIASWINE 2 VIAS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020 ISSUE “Under the Tuscan grapes” Gagliole, Castellina in Chianti “La bellezza toscana è una bellezza di rigore, di perfezione, talvolta di ascetismo, sotto l’aspetto della grazia”. (Guido Piovene, giornalista e scrittore) “Tuscan beauty is a beauty of rigor, of perfection, sometimes of asceticism, under the aspect of grace”. (Guido Piovene, journalist and writer) Tuscany has gone through more than 2000 Sangiovese, Vernaccia and Vermentino. years of history: it was inhabited by the mysterious people of the Etruscans and by the The three Grapes and their pairing: great Roman civilization, it saw the birth of the Renaissance and some of the most famous Sangiovese: from latin: SanguisJovis or Blood artists, writers and scientists of the past. For of Jupiter, Italy’s most well-known and widely this reason, Tuscany preserves a historical, planted red grape variety-High acidity-High artistic and literary heritage that is unique to tannin-Medium bodied-Medium levels of the world. Lovers of good food and wine come alcohol, dry, medium-bodied red wine that tips to Tuscany to taste the simple and towards higher levels of mouth-watering genuine flavors. acidity and tighter tannins. It offers a wide range of tastes from very earthy and rustic, Starting from the North of Tuscany going as is the case with many Chianti Classico, to down to the South, From Gagliole in the heart round and fruit-forward. of the “Chianti Classico”, then La Lastra, stopping in Camigliano in Montalcino and Vernaccia: Vernaccia is a white Italian wine, ending in the stunning scenario of the made from the Vernaccia grape, produced in “Maremma Toscana” at the Bruni Estate. Each and around the Italian hill town of San stop along the way includes an incredible Gimignano in Tuscany. Since the Renaissance, experience with wine tasting or cooking it has been considered one of Italy’s finest classes with local food pairing for white wines. It was the first Italian wine to be VIAS MONTHLY 3 awarded Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) status in 1966. Vermentino: Vermentino (“vur-men-teeno”) is a light-bodied white wine that grows mostly in Italy on the island of Sardinia. What’s exciting about Vermentino is it can be deliciously complex in taste in similar style to Sauvignon Blanc. Because Vermentino is so unknown, you can find high quality wines for a great value. Gagliole, Castellina and Panzano in Chianti Documents mentioning the Gagliole Estate date back hundreds of years. A manuscript in the State Archives in Siena reveals that the son of the Langobard King Berengarius, who had fallen in love with the Tuscan countryside, bequeathed the Gagliole Estate to his wife in 994 A.D. The passing of centuries did no harm to the beauty of this estate which preserves the special character of this unique landscape. Gallule is the ancient name of the estate. Chianti Classico is one of the most important wine territories in Tuscany and worldwide established as a wine territory by Cosimo III de’Medici in 1716, receiving the DOC status in 1966 and DOCG in 1984. The real treasure of the Gagliole vineyards is their soils. They provide the basis for the elegant style and strong character of their wines. The yellow-brownish soil of Castellina in Chianti is made by argillaceous loam: it is the argillite that embraces and nurtures the vines. In Panzano in Chianti vines are planted on galestro-rich soils that are rocky with mineral substances. Gagliole’s estate production systems are based on the principles of integrated farming. This environmentally friendly practice envisages limiting as much as possible the use of synthetic substances or any other active substance that can be harmful to plants and animals. The green manure practice is adopted to supply the soil with organic matter and limit the use of fertilizers. At Gagliole harvesting is done exclusively by hand. Ancient terraces embody the memory of landscapes stubbornly preserved by man’s expert labor. Gagliole also offers the possibility to stay in their luxury bed and breakfast where they offers wonderful meals such as the “Peposo all’Impruneta”. A typical tuscan dish that pairs with the Gallule Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG 2016, wine is made exclusively with Sangiovese grapes grown in centuries-old terraced vineyards of the Antico Podere Gagliole. The wine is deep ruby red color with garnet hues. Intense aromas of violet, cherries and redberries on the nose matched with pleasant spicy notes. This is a wine of great harmony and remarkable depth, rich and complex, qualities that only very old Sangiovese vines can produce. 4 VIAS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020 ISSUE La Lastra, San Gimignano Environment before business is the philosophy of La Lastra. Azienda Agricola La Lastra consists of 2 different working farms: 7 hectares of vineyards in San Gimignano and 23 hectares not far from the historical centre of Siena (7 of which cultivated with vineyards, and 7 with olive trees). Guided by the great passion that inspires those who devote their lives to agriculture as a free personal choice, La Lastra cultivates its vineyards and olive trees following organic methods. The vinification of all their red grapes takes place in the beautiful ancient wine cellar in Marciano, while at the San Gimignano they produce the Vernaccia according to the Italian wine law. The basic bouquet of “Vernaccia di San Gimignano - La Lastra” wine features a rich olfactory non aromatic complexity that can be described thanks to the semantic hyperspace “fruity-ripe” exalting (through fixation) part of the volatile fermentative (but not pre-fermentative) compounds. To be noticed the importance of the microbiological factor in the olfactory composition of this wine, the expression of a warm Tuscany in white. This family-run smallholding is the expression of a simple and serene country lifestyle, and of genuine and traditional farming practices. In the ancient farmhouse of Marciano, dating back to the eighteenth century, where our family lives and works in harmony with nature and where food is simple, genuine, tasteful food, made with love. As is the case for the Penne with Zucchini suggested pairing for Vernaccia di San Gimigniano DOCG 2017. VIAS MONTHLY 5 Camigliano, Montalcino Camigliano in the past was inhabited by the Etruscans who followed the course of the Ombrone River from the coastal Maremma area. Then became quite an important hamlet in the late medieval period, an outpost for Montalcino, joining in the fight to defend republican freedom in the middle of the 16th century. The symbol of Camigliano: the camel, found on a seal dating to the 13th century, can be connected to the influence of the papacy in the area, related to the movements of the Crusades reaching the Holy Land. Camigliano is one of the historical wineries of Montalcino, located in the South West area; Brunello from this historic estate is made from Sangiovese Grosso cultivated on 124 acres of vineyards that produce yields far below the legal limit. The vineyards, certified organic starting from 2017 vintage, have been brought to their full potential (today 530ha of which 93 are cultivated with vines) at an altitude of 300-350m asl. They have intensified the use of cover cropping, that is planting legumes in alternating rows in our vineyards that have the quality of fixing natural nitrogen in the soil and producing organic substances. Mechanical work is carried out by increasingly lighter tractors to tamp the ground as little as possible. To completely avoid the use of herbicides, inter-row hoers are used to clean the rows allowing the vines and their roots to remain intact, they fight disease that can possibly pervade the vines with a mixture of sulfur and copper is used to keep the vines healthy. Optimal results are also achieved through the clonal selection of the grapes after careful research of the results based on the nature of the terrain. Heating in the cellar is made possible with the use of biomass from practices in the vineyards rather than using traditional fossil fuels. They grow more than just grapes at Camiglia- no, from olive oil, local honey and jams, wheat for the pasta to all the produce used in the restaurant in the castle. One stop shopping at the shop will give you all you need to get start- ed on this famous dish from Camigliano. Here you can have the Organic Tagliatelle with Senatore Cappelli flour made locally with ragu sauce paired with Rosso di Montalcino DOC 2018, a younger wine that combines a special vivacity and freshness with a superb structure, and all while sitting in the castle watching the sunset high atop the hillside in Montalcino. 6 VIAS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020 ISSUE Bruni, Grosseto Proceeding towards the south of Tuscany surrounded between little towns and castles there is all the essence of Maremma. On the coastline the air is sharper and the crests of the hills seem rising up directly from the vineyards. It’s here that in 1974, Cantine Bruni was founded as a simple passion in the Roccaccia vineyards, and today is one of the most important private estates in Maremma Toscana. It is on continuous quest for quality, and Bruni has always showed the significant levels the wines of Tuscany can reach. Maremma derives from the Spanish word Marisma, meaning “marsh. It was drained by first the Etruscans then by the Romans, in its natural state this is a very marshy area, as its name suggests and was finally drained in the 1930s.
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