Chiara Condello Sangiovese Predappio 2023

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 While listening to a podcast by Ricardo Felner about the decay on the consumption  of wine he came with a sentence that I found particularly accurate by stating that there is no safe level of alcohol ingest but that it makes every meal better and that he is not willing to give up the possibilities that it opens.

This is a vision that I also share along with a more critical approach to what you drink. If organic wines have gone through a deep revolution in the last twenty years, being now widely accepted by the large majority of the customers, that same path is now being trodden by nature wines.

Somewhere in between conventionally organic farmed and nature wines there are the low intervention ones which seek to find a deeper identification with the terroir and its native yeasts without tending too much on wild flavours which often keep skepticals away.

This Sangiovese from Chiara Condello is a good example of it.

Originary from Predappio, this Sangiovese has a strong mineral component which confers a great freshness but what has impressed me the most was the mediterranean herbal notes which allied to the typical cherry flavours made it a complex and fascinating wine. 

It was also curious to see how the wine has developed itself throughout the three days that it has taken me to drink it. 

From a wild fresh wine dominated by primary fruits flavours, developing to light tertiary aromas which gave more density and complexity to it.

This is one of those wines that is definitely worth going back to it and see how it will develop in the future.

And a good example of how non-filtered low intervention wines can offer a solid drinking experience and eventually opening the mindset of many skepticals. 

 

16/20
Country: Italy
Region: Emilia-Romagna
Grapes: Sangiovese
13,5%
Winemaker: Chiara Condello

Website:https://www.chiaracondello.com/en/vini.html

 

Location: Hamburg, Germany

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