Brand: CALESTAIA
Winery: ROCCAPESTA
Vintage: 2005
Appellation: DOCG, MORELLINO DI SCANSANO RISERVA
Varietal: 100% SANGIOVESE
Winemaker: Paoletti, Bernini, Schuster
Oak: Triple grapes selection. Maceration on skins for 20/25 days. Pre-maceration at 12 °C. Fermentation in steel tanks. Malolactic fermentation in wooden barrels. The wine lays for 24 months in French oak barrels (from 5hl up to 25hl capacity). Once bottled the wine stays in the cellar for a minimum of 12 months.
Alcohol: 14%
Average Price: EUR 23
Tasting Notes: From the Southern part of Tuscany ‘Maremma Toscana’ Calestaia is dressed in a garnet red colour, still ruby red reflections. On the nose great intensity and complexity of the bouquet. The perfumes remember yet mature fruit and jam. In particular, the blueberries’ jam, blueberries in alcohol, plums, dry plums, jam of plums and the smells deriving from the refinement in wooden barrels. Among these you recognize cinnamon, black pepper and clove. Then scents of citrus fruits, orange-peel, furthermore, chocolate.
The palate is distinguished by aristocracy. The typical tannin of the Sangiovese is already damped by the refinement in wood. Also the ‘acidity’ component is very delicate and suffused and does not cover the great softness and roundness that visual analysis had anticipated.
Robust body and clean equilibrium among the components of alcohol and sugars and among the components of mineral salts and acidity. A very persistent wine, with a lovely aftertaste.
Drink now through 2020.
Food Pairing Suggestions: You need to choose a big, hearty dish. Red meat, feathered and furry game also accompanied by mushrooms or truffles.
This Riserva, in addition, is excellent with cheeses: aged tomes, parmesan, Tuscan pecorino
General rating: 4 tastevins
Categories: ‘Sit-down bottle and ‘Classic’
Tasting date: March 2nd 2009