Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai Vineyards Such a lovely savoury nose

Such a lovely savoury nose full of whole bunches of small red berry fruit

Alain Graillot is best known in the Northern Rhone for his excellent Crozes-Hermitage wines

expect lovely citrus notes

This is a wine with intense notes of violets

Entwined within a complex deep core of red and purple fruit aromas

Casavecchia alla Piazza di Gabriele Buondonno, Chianti Classico Riserva 2020 Ojai Vineyards Such a lovely savoury noseA much more serious proposition than the regular Chianti. It is made out of the best grapes from low yielding, stony vineyards planted in the 1970s; the fruit is dark and dense, the tannins fine and chocolatey. It has balance and energy, and a little new wood adds to the complex spice notes on the very long finish.