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Podere Le Boncie is an under-the-radar property in the Chianti Classico region that has been quietly crafting soulful wines in a traditional mold for years now. Winemaker Giovanna Morganti has proven to be an unrivaled source of untamed, delicious, and utterly unique Sangiovese.
After Giovanna’s training in enology, she worked during the 1980’s for Chianti powerhouse San Felice, where she helped plant and monitor an experimental plot of over 300 native Tuscan cultivars.
Just as she was in the middle of this massive undertaking, her father (a legendary enologist in his own right) offered her one of the noblest gifts on Earth: a 3-hectare plot in Castelnuovo Berardegna -- a hallowed address for fine Sangiovese.
A blank slate upon which she could make her mark, in her own fashion. Given her formative experience with rare varietals, when it came time to plant her own vineyard, she included lesser-known grapes like Foglia Tonda and Mammolo alongside Sangiovese, and planted them at a staggeringly high-density 7000 vines per hectare.
She also made the painstaking choice to work en gobelet, an arduous, labor-intensive way of farming for perfectionists (such as Didier Barral in the Languedoc) obsessed with quality. Giovanna believes these vines yield higher quality, more terroir-transparent fruit—and in making this choice, she sacrifices half of her yields in the name of quality! All harvests are by hand, and farming follows biodynamic practices.
Importer: "The wine’s name “Cinque” recognizes the original composition of the wine, namely five grape types which comprise fine Chianti Classico: Sangiovese with Colorino, Mammolo, Fogliatonda, and Ciliegiolo. Cinque is perhaps less formidably structured than the Le Trame but it is no less noble, carrying its mantle of the particular terroir borne of the hills surrounding Castelnuovo Berardenga, wines of vigor and cut.”
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