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| This new Il Chiuso, together with Rosato and Il Poggio, completes our “primary” line of wines, those that are ready to enjoy sooner and are more easily approachable, with moderate price-tags to match. If we were to compare our creations to those of the high-fashion houses, for example, we could call our Castello, Bellavista, Casuccia, and Apparita our “haut couture line,” while Rosato Poggio, and Chiuso would be our “ready-to-wear line.”With respect to our experience with a monovarietal Pinot Noir, in some years we found ourselves unable to produce Il Chiuso, since the wine did not perfectly conform to the above mentioned quality parameters. The results that we witnessed between 1987, the first year we released that wine, and 2001, the most recent release, convinced us that our terroir was in fact capable of yielding an excellent wine, but one that at times displayed little typicity or was a bit out of balance. Pinot Noir is a very early-ripening variety, and elegance is its hallmark. The vineyard was planted in 1984, in the estate’s highest and best-aspected sites. Currently, as we experience earlier harvest dates ever more frequently, it is Pinot Noir than suffers the consequences more than other varieties. This shortening of the growth cycle allows us to produce a wine that exhibits dense colour, good tannins, firm structure, satisfactory roundedness, but somewhat lacking in elegance--the perfect wine for a blend therefore but one that does not fully satisfy if made as a monovarietal. |
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