Caparsa Chianti Classico Riserva Doccio Matteo 2021 Old Rioja this is no afterthought

this is no afterthought

Salt and leathery smokiness on the nose

which is the variety that we see most often in our Negronis

a family that has worked the vines around Saint-Romain since 1758 and went organic back in 2009

Caparsa Chianti Classico Riserva Doccio Matteo 2021 Old Rioja this is no afterthoughtPaolo Cianferoni has run Caparsa since 1982, on the farm his father bought in 1965, and it shows in the wine: rugged, honest, entirely unbothered by fashion. Caparsa was one of Flatiron's very first loves in Chianti and there's never been a breakup. The estate sits in Radda, the highest and coolest corner of Chianti Classico, sometimes called the Chambolle Musigny of the zone for the ethereal red fruited Sangiovese it produces. Doccio a Matteo is the