Castellare I Sodi di San Niccolo 2020 Consignment eucalyptus and pepper wrapped around

eucalyptus and pepper wrapped around dark plummy fruit

fermented with native yeasts and aged on the lees in bottle for at least a year

Black cherry and cola are still there

the wine is crisp and textured

with fortnightly (that’s every two weeks) battonage for 8 months after which is was racked and bottled

Castellare I Sodi di San Niccolo 2020 Consignment eucalyptus and pepper wrapped aroundThere's a different endangered bird on every vintage of this label, a tradition founder Paolo Panerai started in 1977 to protest illegal bird hunting and to mark Castellare as a wildlife refuge that farms without poisons. The wine inside is just as principled: I Sodi di San Niccolo is one of the original Super Tuscans, but where most reached for Cabernet, Panerai bet on native grapes. It's a blend of the estate's own Sangioveto clone and a splash of