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The 2004 Sezzana is a full-bodied, intense offering loaded with super-ripe dark fruit, menthol and toasted oak. There is a subtle note of greenness that lurks in the wine, and the tannins are unusually firm within the context of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2019. Giorgio Rivetti’s Tuscan wines continue to show improvement. Interestingly, Rivetti prefers medium-sized barrels for his Tuscan wines as he found the smaller 225-liter barrels didn’t allow his Sangiovese-based wines to express the full breadth of their qualities.
Flavors of spicy black cherry, vanill, and coffee. Full bodied, sweet tannins, impeccably balanced wood and acidity with a long fine finish. Fermentation with the skins for six to seven days in steel rotary fermentors with controlled temperature, maturation for 12 months in French oak barriques (100% new) . Finishing in the bottle for three months.
alcoholic fermentation in roto-fermenters for 6 to 8 days at controlled temperature, malolactic fermentation in oak
PRODUCTION:
10,000 bottles/year
COLOR / TYPE:
Red Dry Still
VARIETIES:
100% Sangiovese
MATURATION:
entirely in new, medium toasted French oak for 12 – 14 months, transfer to stainless steal vats for 3 months before bottling, aging in bottles for another 20 months
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