Colour: Ruby red with garnet hues. Aroma: the 2005 Riserva Ducale is characterised by particularly fragrant, fruity notes, typical of this vintage. Sweet cherries and red berry fruits meet with delicately spicy hints of cigar box and white pepper grains and elegant scents of red roses and flint. Tasting profile: Fruity, soothing and well-balanced, the taste reveals velvety tannins and lots of fruit. The long ageing in oak enriches the fruity core with hints of cacao and cloves and the long-lingering aftertaste adds intriguing notes of rosemary and figs.

Technical notes

The Chianti Classico "Riserva Ducale" stems from an accurate selection of the best grapes during harvest. Picking started from the third week of September and lasted until mid October. The alcohol fermentation, aided by racking and punching down, took place in thermo-controlled stainless-steel vats at an average temperature of 26-28°C for approximately 10 days. The maceration on the skins continued for another 14 days. After completing the malo-lactic fermentation Riserva Ducale was aged for 24 months in 35/80 hl. oak barrel and in stainless-steel vats, then in bottle.