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Chianti Classico
w h a t ’ s NEW
WHAT
new
2013: THE CHIANTI CLASSICO REVOLUTION
The year 2013 has been the year of the Chianti Classico wine revolution. In fact, the
Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico members’ assembly has approved important changes
to the production regulations leading to an authentic revamping of the Chianti Classico
denomination.
THE QUALITY PYRAMID
Among the changes is approval of a new classification for Chianti Classico, with a new product positioned
at the top of the DOCG quality pyramid: the Gran Selezione.
The new type of Chianti Classico is produced exclusively with grapes from single vineyards or selected from
the estate’s best-suited vineyards. In addition to having stricter technical and organoleptic characteristics,
Gran Selezione wines can be released on the market only 30 months after the grape harvest, 3 of them
passed in bottle refinement. Unique features that place this new type at the summit of the Chianti Classico
quality pyramid.
Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
• Wine produced from single vineyard or from a selection
of the estate’s best grapes
• Minimum aging requirement: 30 months, including 3 months of bottle aging
• Excellent chemical and organoleptic characteristics
Chianti Classico Riserva
• Minimum aging requirement: 24 months,
including 3 months of bottle aging
• better defined chemical and organoleptic characteristics
Chianti Classico Annata
• Well-defined chemical and organoleptic
characteristics
N.B. In every cases, vintner has to declare wine
destination when applying for certification
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QUALITY PRODUCTION:
AN INTENTIONAL CHOICE
Another important fact is that, for the product receive suitability certification, the vintner must now
always declare in advance whether it is to be used
for Chianti Classico Annata, Riserva or Gran Selezione.
This means that the producer makes a more deliberate pre-selection of the grapes and wines to be
used in the final product.
a product that’s
always certified
Under new regulations, batches of Chianti Classico
wine can be marketed only if certified as suitable
by the pertinent oversight organization. Uncertified
bulk wine can no longer be marketed; even in the
case of blends of already certified batches the blend
itself must undergo suitability tests.
AN EVEN STRONGER BRAND:
ENERGY, PRIDE AND ELEGANCE
The Black Rooster trademark that since 2005 has
stood for the entire Chianti Classico denomination
has been given a graphic revision to make it stand
out even more on every bottle of Chianti Classico.
The logo with the Black Rooster symbol, redesigned
with greater impact and more contemporary lines,
will leave the governmental seal to be located more
visibly, on the neck of the bottle or rear label.
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Chianti Classico
Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
characteristics:
Colour deep ruby red tending to garnet with age
Aroma spicy and persistent
Taste dry, persistent, balanced
Minimum alcohol content 13° vol.
Total minimum acidity 4.5 g/l
Minimum non-reductive 26 g/l
extract
Gran Selezione certification
Use of the title “Chianti Classico Gran Selezione”
depends on issue of a suitability certificate
based on chemical-physical tests conducted
by authorized laboratories and approval of the
wine’s organoleptic characteristics by special
tasting committees as per Italian Ministerial
Decree 16/12/2010 concerning batches of wine
destined for bottling.
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Chianti Classico
Gran SelezionE
A HISTORIC DECISION
It’s the first time that Italian wine legislation has
permitted introduction of a new type of wine at
the summit of a denomination’s quality pyramid,
and the first time that a legal revolution of such
breadth was achieved thanks to the vintners themselves, the 600-some members of the consortium.
Chianti Classico is the first denomination in Italy
to stake itself upward, to valorize the whole starting from its qualitative excellence. A decision in
counter-trend to the rest of the world, aimed at
stratifying upward the territory’s enological offer.
The Gran Selezione accounts for about 10% of
Chianti Classico production for overall worth of
between 70 and 100 million euros.
VINEYARD SELECTION
SENSORIAL
CHARACTERISTICS
Gran Selezione is made exclusively from a winery’s own grapes grown in its finest vineyards according to strict regulations that make it a truly
premium wine, a new point of reference on the
world wine scene.
Gran Selezione is also able to enhance the different characteristics of a broad and variegated territory divided into nine communities and different
climatic and soil zones but united by the unmistakable Sangiovese “signature”.
From the organoleptic viewpoint Gran Selezione
has a great structure that, thanks to grape selection and long refinement, is given superior balance
and harmony, depth of flavor and aromatic complexity. On the palate it combines immediacy of
fruit with the fascinating nuances typical of wines
taking long to develop.
REFINEMENT
In addition to having the chemical and organoleptic characteristics of very high quality wines, Gran
Selezione can be marketed only after a minimum
30-month maturation and an obligatory period of
bottle refinement.
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