Chianti Classico NonLoSò
2020
Jurij Fiore is best known for the wines he has made alongside his father, Vittore, for years at the family’s Poggio Scalette property in the Greve village of Chianti Classico. Several years ago, Jurij started restoring old vineyards in Lamole, one of the newly appointed UGA’s (Unità Geografiche Aggiuntive, or Additional Geographical Units) in Chianti Classico. Lamole is 9km south of Greve and over 1100 ft higher in elevation. Jurij is working with his daughter, Sara to produce an extremely...
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100% Sangiovese from 18 year old vines in the Grospoli area of Lamole. The sandy, silty hillside vineyards are 600 metres above sea level and face west and south-west. The hand-picked grapes alcoholic fermentation is in stainless steel tanks with malolactic fermentation in 228 ltr pièce (Burgundy barrels). The wine is then aged for 19 months in a mix of new and one year old 228 ltr pièce and stainless-steel tank before bottling.
The 2021 Chianti Classico NonLoSò is superb. Dark, pliant and super-expressive, this pure Sangiovese Chianti Classico marries textural depth and energy to great effect. Dark cherry, plum, spice, leather and menthol open in the glass, but with great reluctance. This is a superb showing, especially for a wine that was just bottled!
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This wine's name means "I don't know" in English. Made with Sangiovese, the Jurij Fiore & Figlia 2021 Chianti Classico Lamole Nonlosò offers a crisp and linear expression with wild berry, blue flower, earth and crushed stone. The wine ages in oak for 18 months, but you'd hardly know it given the bright primary intensity and punchy clarity of the fruit at hand. The Nonlosò has cooling acidity, menthol notes and silky tannins. This is a tiny production of 558 bottles.
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The 2020 Chianti Classico NonLoSò is an elegant, gracious wine. Rose petal, mint, dried herbs, white pepper and leather are all nicely lifted over a core of sweet red cherry fruit. Medium in body and a touch nervous, the 2020 is a terrific expression of the high-elevation vineyards of the Lamole district.
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Reaching almost 600 metres above sea level, the west-facing, terraced vineyard was planted in 2008 and yields a low 25hl/ha. Refined in equal proportions of stainless steel, new and second-use barrels, this is the fullest and densest fruit of Jurij Fiore’s Lamole bottlings – yet still isn’t huge. Initial oak notes of mint, nutmeg and toast morph into cedar-inflected cherry and strawberry. There is a lashing of vanillin on the palate, and the tannins are chewy and just a bit dry, but then zesty acidity and a bitter chinotto note kick in and it finishes fresh and feisty.
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