Antinori Matarocchio 2015 750ml (750ml)

Continue Shopping Add to Wish List

Price: $599.99

Qty:   Add to Cart

Producer	Antinori
Country	Italy
Region	Toscana
Varietal	Cabernet Franc
Vintage	2015
Sku	RD10533
Size	750ml

 

Lush, textured, and profoundly aromatic, Matarocchio retains its laser-like focus and freshness in the banner 2015 vintage--it's an astonishing wine that sacrifices none of its nuance to its intensity or power. This wine gleams ruby red in the glass, and it bursts with notes of ripe red and blue berries, warm pipe tobacco, melted chocolate, pressed violets, peppery spices, and crushed fresh herbs like mint and rosemary. Chewy tannins marry with keen acidity, while the wine's sweet inner perfume finds its complement in savory minerality that lingers on the extended, resonant finish. Cellar for a couple of years and then enjoy for a decade, likely longer! Matarocchio derives from just five rows of Cabernet Franc vines within Bolgheri's Guado al Tasso vineyard; grapes ferment in temperature-controlled stainless steel for about 30 days, which include a complete malolactic fermentation, and the wine ages in wholly new French oak barriques for about 18 months before the final blend is assemb

While deeply ensconced in the rebellious tradition of Super-Tuscan wines, Guado al Tasso's Marchese Piero Antinori stands in opposition to most Super-Tuscan winemakers. In contradiction to those producers who looked to French techniques, Antinori believes that to imitate a Bordeaux wine is wrong; rather, he wants to make great wines by using Italian tradition to shape both indigenous and international varietals. With the guidance of legendary enologist Giacomo Tachis, Antinori introduced Tignanello in 1971, Solaia in 1978, and Guado al Tasso in 1990. Located in the Bolgheri zone, the Guado al Tasso estate, or "Badger's Ford,"dates back to 1385 when Antinori's ancestors joined the Florentine Guild of Vintners. Twenty-six generations later Antinori has acquired and developed estates in Toscana's finest and most progressive viticultural areas of Montalcino, Chianti Classico, and Montepulciano, and beyond, all of which work in concert to produce some of the bst-loved Italian wines.