With almost 80% Sangiovese, this wine is a good inexpensive Chianti. The 2011 wine has a youthful ruby color, fragrant scents of red cherry and other red fruit, and on the palate ripe fruit flavors are balanced by good acidity and light tannins. Owned and managed by the dynamic Alessandro François whose French ancestors settled in Tuscany in 1897, Castello di Querceto is an award-winning Tuscan producer of very good value traditional Chianti and Chianti Classico wines as well as modern style Super Tuscans.
Serve at 15 - 16℃; this light-to-medium bodied wine is enjoyable in summer and best served slightly chilled; matches with chicken or pork dishes or with finely prepared fish; also makes a good partner for Cantonese style sausages.
50% in a combination of French and American oak for 3 months.
Drink now or through the next 2 - 3 years.
John H. Isacs