ColleMassari Poggio Lombrone

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Wine Description

ColleMassari is the most important and largest estate of the Montecucco appellation. The vineyards are located on the Montecucco hill that gives name to the appellation. The vines on the Montecucco hill are the oldest Sangiovese vines of the DOCG.

Poggio Lombrone is the name of the estate's oldest Sangiovese vineyard. 

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Acclaim
“The 2016 Sangiovese Riserva Poggio Lombrone is drop-dead gorgeous and totally classic with a bouquet that opens with crushed black cherries, cooling sweet herbal tones and dusty cedar spice box. Time in the glass brings further depths of plum, cranberries and underbrush. This is velvety and rich. It's harmonious, as ripe woodland berries cascade across a core of salty acids offset by a twang of sour citrus, with fine tannins slowly mounting toward the close. While youthfully structured and dry through the finale, there’s still pleasure to be found in the rosy inner florals, iron-tinged mineral tones and savory spices that linger throughout. Poggio Lombrone is a single-vineyard selection of Sangiovese vines that are over fifty years old. This spends eighteen months in thirty-hectoliter oak casks prior to bottling. The 2016 really captures the magic of this excellent Tuscan vintage. Bury a few in the cellar; you won’t regret it.”
— Vinous, Dec 2021
“A very pleasant Sangiovese here with red and black berries and a hint of perfumed chalk. Hints of fresh mushrooms, too. Medium-bodied with lightly firm tannins and a tight, fresh finish."
— James Suckling, Jul 2021
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Vineyard & Production Info
Vineyard size
20 acres
Soil composition
tufaceous clays and calcareous marl
Training method
Cordon Spur-pruned
Elevation:
985 feet
Exposure:
Southwestern
Year vineyard planted:
1952
Harvest time:
September 15th-October 10th
First vintage of this wine:
2004
Bottles produced of this wine:
15,000
Average Vine Age:
65
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Winemaking & Aging
Maceration length:
35
Varietal composition:
100% Sangiovese
Fermentation container:
Barrels
Length of alcoholic fermentation:
15 days days
Fermentation temperature:
77-86 °F
Maceration technique:
Punchdown
Malolactic fermentation:
Full
Fining agent:
no fining
Type of aging container:
Barrels
Size of aging container:
40 hl
Type of oak:
Slavonian
Length of aging before bottling:
30 months
Length of bottle aging:
24 months
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Analytical Data
pH level:
3.59
Acidity:
5.33 g/L
Alcohol:
14.85 %
Dry extract:
29.8 g/L
Residual sugar:
0.55 g/L
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Wine Production

Harvesting is done manually and the spontaneous fermentation takes place in open truncated cone-shaped oak vats with frequent and gentle manual punching, allowing long macerations and only fully ripe tannins extraction. Malolactic fermentation in 40 hl. oak casks, where the aging continues for 30 months.