8 vintages not to be missed for 2 icon wines of CARPINETO at Life of Wine

The participation of CARPINETO in LIFE OF WINE - Journey into the Ages of Wine , held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Rome on Sunday 18 October , is particularly interesting, the event created to discover the evolution of wine over time through comparison and taste of great Italian labels.

Life of Wine foresees the tasting of the vintage on the market and at least two old vintages of the same label, Carpineto in addition to the current vintage, 2016, of old vintages brings 6 !

For the Chianti Classico Riserva 1990, 1995, 2007 and for the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano the 1989, 1997, 2010 .

An original event in the overall panorama and a precious opportunity to approach a company known among other things for the exceptional longevity of its wines, also thanks to a great deal of work on the elevation and aging of wines in cask and in the bottle. A company with one of the most well-stocked wine archives of the historical designations of Tuscany.

Important structures, prominent extractions, a refined texture of great depth and at the same time lively and still evolving momentum that gives a drink of happy fullness never laid down. This is what we will find before and in the chalice on Sunday 18th. Wines differently young , we could define them ...

53 years ago their fathers, Giovanni Carlo Sacchet and Antonio Mario Zaccheo , founded Carpineto with the intention of producing the best Chianti Classico that the terroir could offer, and Chianti Classico was their first wine, in contrast to the production standards of the time. . Today the young generation of Carpineto pursuing that dream in this appellation produces three labels, the vintage Chianti Classico, the Chianti Classico Riserva and the Chianti Classico Gran Selezione.

"The Chianti Classico in its three different variations is the result of a far-sighted vision, the crowning of the dream of our fathers, who founded the company in Greve in Chianti in 1967", say Caterina Sacchet, oenologist, and Antonio Michael Zaccheo . "A product of great breed and elegance that rewards foresight, consistency in quality and work over time."

A blend that includes more than 80% of Sangiovese, Canaiolo and other red grape varieties as per specification, placed in oak barrels for 12 months and then in steel tanks, refined in the bottle at least 10 months before release.

Appodiato di Dudda , the company's original location, known for centuries as “Carpineto”, is located on the hills at a height of 300 meters, in the Chianti Classico area. It is the historical heart of the company, emblematically represented also by one of the most well-stocked wine archives, with a large number of historical vintages. In addition to the archive, a lot of space in the cellar is dedicated to the elevation of wood: the barrel room contains about 1000 barrels and barriques. While the refinement of the bottled wines takes place in an underground cell at a constant temperature that can accommodate up to one million bottles. The complex, where the cellar is currently being expanded, is surrounded by 8 hectares of Sangiovese del Chianti Classico vineyards.

Tenuta di Montepulciano is the largest and most spectacularly landscaped, modern and green heart. A wine retreat of 184 hectares of land dedicated to vineyards, olive groves, arable land, woods. A real oasis of nature and the environment in the name of sustainability. It is also the Appodiato where in the last twenty years we have witnessed and are witnessing the most lively operations of renewal and replanting: over the next 5 years maximum 15 new HA will be planted / renewed, the varieties that will be planted will tend to be red wines, Sangiovese and Canaiolo.

That for the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano for CARPINETO is a real vocation, an attitude that inscribes the company in the history of the denomination with the highest performance, the maximum expression of valorization.

CARPINETO and the NOBLE , a matter of time ... we could rightly say. Long evolution in the bottle in the style of the company but also a highly valued project born over 20 years ago. The only company to produce only Riserva and UnCru di Nobile, pure Sangiovese with twenty years of history

A Vino Nobile di Montepulciano , entered for 3 years (vintage 2010, 2011, 2013) among the top 100 in the world in the Wine Spectator ranking , testifying to the constancy of the quality standards of excellence of the production of Carpineto . An icon wine for the company.

The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva Carpineto is a blend in the wake of tradition and which provides, as required by the disciplinary, alongside Sangiovese the use in smaller quantities of local varieties such as Canaiolo, Colorino, Mammolo is produced in the number of 150,000 bottles .