Chianti Classico 2017 – unexpected acidity
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Walter unpicks the 2017 Chianti Classicos and enjoys many a 2016. See also Chianti Classico Collezione 2019 – Riserva and Gran Selezione.
My immersion last month in the just-released 2017 Chianti Classico in Florence revealed something that I would have never associated with the hottest year on record: plentiful acidity. What equally surprised me was the relatively modest alcohol levels on those wines already bottled (quite a few were cask samples). Many labels indicated 13.5%, the norm having been 14.5% recently. These two factors seemed to turn wine wisdom, at least as I know it, on its head.
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