Zonin Classici Chianti DOCG 2024 (Italy)

Description

Cherry, Floral, Spice

"Classically expressed on the nose, showing dark cherry, wild strawberry, cured meat, and nutmeg aromas, followed by a finely textured palate offering juicy fruit flavours with layers of fine tannins. Well-structured and lingering with a fine dry finish. At its best: now to 2029" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Mar 2026

Bright ruby-red color of an attractive intensity. In its youth, it is richly marked by violet reflections that tend to become garnet with age. Characteristically intense, fine and elegant and distinguished by an elegant scent of violets and tenuous perfumes of wild berries. Dry, full, properly balanced and extremely enticing with lingering acidity and flavors of cherry and spice.

The stems are separated from the grapes, which are softly pressed in cylinders under pressure gently breaking their skins and releasing the juice. The juice is left to macerate on the skins for about a week in temperature controlled stainless steel vinifiers at a temperature of about 28-30°C. After the alcoholic fermentation is over, the wine undergoes also the malolactic fermentation, a process that lowers total acidity and makes wines seem rounder and fuller in flavor.

Zonin Among the 'World's top 50 most admired wine brands 2020' in Drinks International Magazine.

Zonin1821 is one of the most important family-owned wineries in Italy and in the world. An historic family of winegrowers now in its seventh generation, Zonin is renowned for the quality of its wines and its entrepreneurial dynamism. Its mission, starting with Italy, is to optimize its wines and its winegrowing regions with far- sightedness and familial continuity.

Inspired by the principle ‘to each region its traditions, to each region its wine’, since the end of the 1960s the family has selected only supremely well-suited terroirs, bringing the sum total of currently cultivated vineyards to approximately 2000 hectares. Its team is made up of 32 winemakers and agronomists operating across 12 estates located in the 7 most outstanding Italian winegrowing regions, in addition to the American estate of Barboursville Vineyards in Virginia (USA) and the Chilean estate of Dos Almas.

Their expertise in each winegrowing area, promotion of the ‘Italian lifestyle’ worldwide, quest for excellence through continuous improvement and the foresight and solidity of their entrepreneurial strategy are the most important values underpinning the company.

Food Pairing: When it is young, the wine combines well with the hearty flavors of country cooking and it can be consumed throughout such meals. After the third year, it becomes the ideal companion of every type of roast, grilled red meat, game and cheeses aged at moderate length.