2019 Castellare di Castellina I Sodi di San Niccolo Toscana 750 ml

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One of the Best-Kept Secrets In Tuscany

Castellare’s I Sodi might be the best-kept secret in Tuscany.

With a 96-point score from James Suckling and Decanter—plus 95s from Wine Spectator, Wine Advocate, and Vinous—the 2019 stands with the best of Tuscany. Most years, its qualitative peers are collector blue-chips like Sassicaia, Ornellaia, and Tignanello.

To Tuscan growers, there are fields, and then there are sodi. Fields are soft and easy to farm. Fields take your orders with a smile. They are compliant. If you want to whistle while you work, you work the fields.

But if you want great wine, you work sodi. They’re brutal, hard, and unforgiving, but few would question their rewards.

The sodi that lends its name to Castellare’s flagship wine is located in a natural amphitheater that enjoys fantastic exposure to the sun. The soil contains well-draining limestone plus a small amount of clay, and is extremely low in nitrogen, which reduces the vineyard yield but increases fruit quality and concentration.

I Sodi is a collaboration between Castellare and the University of Milan to create a wine that could compete with—and beat—the Super Tuscans, but one made solely from indigenous grapes. The resulting blend of 85% Sangioveto (a local Sangiovese clone) and 15% Malvasia Nera hit the mark in a big way, and the critics noticed. When Galloni sat down to taste three decades of I Sodi, an endorsement in itself, he praised the wine’s “impeccable track record of consistency and excellence.”

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2019 Castellare di Castellina I Sodi di San Niccolo Toscana quantity: 1