Chianti Classico “L’Aura”

Wines

L’Aura – Chianti Classico DOCG (Sangiovese 100%) This is their premier wine, bottled for the first time in 1998. Jacopo and Filippo Di Battista dedicated this wine to their mother, Laura. The name is written in the apostrophized manner of Petrarch’s “Canzoniere” who called his muse Lady Laura, a perennial subject of unrequited love, in order to hide her identity and not draw the ire of her jealous husband. The illustration on the label is a drawing made by Jacopo’s grandmother in the 1930s of a decorative plate that had an angel holding flowers – which eventually became the company’s logo.

Appellation: Chianti Classico DOCG

Region: Toscana

Type: Red, dry

Varietal: 100% Sangiovese

Certified Organic

Wine Details:

Tasting Notes:

Color: Ruby red of medium intensity.

Bouquet: Fresh and floral with red fruit overtones.

Taste: Pleasing and versatile to the palate with a well balanced acidity and medium tannins.

Alcohol: 13.5%.

Food Pairing: Good with salumi, pasta with ragù, and roasted and grilled beef.

Vinyard Notes:

First vintage: 1998cocation: Querceto - Castellina in Chianti.

Altitude: 1370-1574 ft. a.s.l.

Soil type: Clay and limestone.

Yield: 60qq.

Training system: Spur pruned cordon.

Planting system: Variable high density.

Winemaking Notes:

Harvest: By hand.

Maceration: 25 days.

Winemaking: temperature controlled in stainless steel.

Fermentaion temperature: 28°C.

Aging: 12 months French oak (500 lt.), 3 months in the bottle.