The Wine: of excellent limpidity, it has a sparkling ruby colour, intense perfume, vinous and fragrant with slight hints of raspberry, wild strawberry sweet violet and ripe grape.The flavour is dry, lively but soft, pleasantly fruity, with a nice taste of green and Marasca almond with a lively core. Vinification: this very young and lively wine owes its singular freshness of taste to the particular composition of its basic grape varieties and to the refining system, obtained through the ancient technique of (12 x 75 cl)
Region:
Italy, Tuscany, Chianti
Producer:
House of Melini Portassieve
Product ID:
47373
Melini Chianti Tuscany Description: Modern-style Chianti with fruit to the fore and soft tannins. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £91.61
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Melini GRANAIO Chianti Classico DOCG Tuscany Description: The wine: Has a bright, ruby red colour, and intense and complex perfume, with strong fruity notes and elegant touches of vanilla, irises and violets, a dry well-defined and pleasing flavour, soft but well-structured, with a clean aftertaste of preserves and almonds. The vineyard: 13.34 hectares of vineyards of the Granaio estate, in the locality of Granaio-Bonorli, between the communes of Castellina in Chianti and Barberino Val d'Elsa. This area, known as La Paneretta, in the heart of the classic zone between Siena and Florence, is judged to be amongst the best in Chianti. The vineyard are trained by the simple and double Guyot system, at an altitude of between 300 and 350 metres, on clayey limestone soil, facing south. (12 x 37.5 cl) Price: £78.71
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Melini GRANAIO Chianti Classico DOCG Tuscany Description: The wine: Has a bright, ruby red colour, and intense and complex perfume, with strong fruity notes and elegant touches of vanilla, irises and violets, a dry well-defined and pleasing flavour, soft but well-structured, with a clean aftertaste of preserves and almonds. The vineyard: 13.34 hectares of vineyards of the Granaio estate, in the locality of Granaio-Bonorli, between the communes of Castellina in Chianti and Barberino Val d'Elsa. This area, known as La Paneretta, in the heart of the classic zone between Siena and Florence, is judged to be amongst the best in Chianti. The vineyard are trained by the simple and double Guyot system, at an altitude of between 300 and 350 metres, on clayey limestone soil, facing south. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £67.24
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Melini I COLTRI Sangiovese Toscana IGT Tuscany Description: The wine: Ruby red colour, with purple shades, vinous bouquet, fragrant with attractive touches of macerated fruits of the forest and hints of irises and violets; soft, elegant, very balanced and fruity flavour with a lingering, pleasing aftertaste of blackberries and raspberries. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £49.84
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Melini SAN LORENZO Chianti Classico DOCG Tuscany Description: The wine: Bright ruby colour, pronounced bouquet of raspberries and blackberries with hints of violets and irises, well-defined, full, savoury and pleasantly tannic flavour with a lingering, pleasing after taste of fruits of the forest preserve and almonds. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £50.71
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Melini Brunello di Montalcino DOCG
Description: The Wine: Brunello di Montalcino is without a doubt the most precious, the most famous and the most representative of the whole Italian oenological production.It is often included in the official menus of the Royal and presidential spreads. A powerfully structured wine with a deep and rich bouquet. Vinification: a little tannic in youth, after 5-6 years it matures towards an austere, warm and ample flavour. Brunello is capable of grandeur with great age. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £185.26
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Melini Chianti Classico LA SELVANELLA Riserva DOCG Toscana
Description: Deep ruby red, with a garnet rim. The bouquet is intense and complex, floral notes, raspberries and scents of spices. The taste is dry, warm and full, long lasting finish of toasted almonds and wild berries. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £91.39
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Melini Orvieto Classico SECCO DOC Umbria
Description: The Wine: bright straw yellow, the bouquet is fine, with a floral fragrance and recalls of musk and almonds; dry taste, full, soft but balanced, with an elegant aftertaste of bitter almonds and white peaches. Vinification: the grapes are harvested before the beginning of October during early morning, to avoid the heat, and are taken immediately to the cellar for soft pressing; the free run juice is cleaned only by natural decanting, and ferments at controlled temperature with natural yeasts. The new wine is refined in stainless steel, under nitrogen until bottling. Vine: Trebbiano Toscana , Verdello, Drupeggio , Grechetto, Malvasia Toscana Grapes. The Vineyard: selected vineyards situated in the heart of the classic D.O.C. area of Orvieto at a height of 300 metres. The vineyard is trained on spur cordon and Guyot on a thin and naturally clayey soil with southern west exposure; produces 100 quintals of grapes/ha. (12 x 37.5 cl) Price: £54.02
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Melini Orvieto Classico AMABILE DOC Umbria
Description: The Wine: bright straw yellow, a fruity bouquet; with a fine, velvety, pleasantly soft sweet taste. Vinification: soft pressing of the grapes followed by a natural decanting and a long fermentation at a low temperature. Vine: Trebbiano Toscana , Verdello, Drupeggio , Grechetto, Malvasia Toscana Grapes. The Vineyard: selected vineyards situated in the heart of the classic D.O.C. area of Orvieto at a height of 100-400 metres. Vine Trainig: Cordone speronato and Guyot, produces 110 quintals of grapes/ha. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £46.34
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Melini Orvieto Classico SECCO DOC Umbria
Description: The Wine: bright straw yellow, the bouquet is fine, with a floral fragrance and recalls of musk and almonds; dry taste, full, soft but balanced, with an elegant aftertaste of bitter almonds and white peaches. Vinification: the grapes are harvested before the beginning of October during early morning, to avoid the heat, and are taken immediately to the cellar for soft pressing; the free run juice is cleaned only by natural decanting, and ferments at controlled temperature with natural yeasts. The new wine is refined in stainless steel, under nitrogen until bottling. Vine: Trebbiano Toscana , Verdello, Drupeggio , Grechetto, Malvasia Toscana Grapes. The Vineyard: selected vineyards situated in the heart of the classic D.O.C. area of Orvieto at a height of 300 metres. The vineyard is trained on spur cordon and Guyot on a thin and naturally clayey soil with southern west exposure; produces 100 quintals of grapes/ha. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £46.34
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Melini SANTA LANCIERO Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Toscana
Description: Ruby red with bright garnet hues; very fine, deep, complex bouquet with strong taste of prune, cloves and cinnamon and hints of violet and iris; dry, savoury, attractively tannic, full flavour with a lingering aftertaste of plum jam and toasted almonds. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £82.46
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