85% Sangiovese-Alicante-Merlot-15% Cabernet
12 x 750 ml
Color: intriguing thickness of the intense ruby color with purple reflections slightly turning to garnet. Nose: complex scents of leather, tobacco and black berries. Taste: smooth impressive body sustained by structured and balanced silky tannins . Long s
This wine well accompanies roasts, red beef and game dishes.
Area | 80 Hectares |
Soil | Mainly sandy loamy soil -(locally called "terrenello") and -in the upper part -heavier texture clay-sandy soil (called "terrengrosso") over a well drained bedrock. |
Wine Making | Vinification in vats at 28-29°C-15-18 days maceration-then matured in oak barrels 18-24 months-2 months in bottle. |
Vinification | Vinification occurs in vats at controlled temperature of 28-29°C and 15-18 days maceration. It is then matured in French and American oak barrels 18-24 months. |
Annual Production | 7000 bottles |
History of Estate(s) | Castello di Poppiano was an impressive medieval building erected around the turn of the first millennium, as a fortress to defend Florence. It has been the property of the Guicciardini for almost nine centuries documented by an inheritance act of 1199. |