Chianti wine Gallo Nero or Classical
Classical Chianti young
The Chianti Classical young once came consumed almost always within a year from the vintage.
Today, the Consortium of the Gallo Nero has postponed the expiration for his immission on the market from June to November like least.
In the first years of his life the Classical Chianti has color bright ruby, it's perfumed, yielded and round.
Classical Chianti Reserve
Around the twenty per cent of the whole production of Gallo Nero comes destined to the reserve.
This wine has color red dark inclined to the pomegranate, perfume of spices and small fruits of wood, important, elegant and velvety structure.
Until from the vintage the good grapes come destine to the reserve and their ownership gets rich with the aging in the barrels of wood.
Today they aren't more used the big strokes in chestnut tree or oak of once while they are used containers of smaller dimensions, French barriques or strokes in oak, that allow better transfer of their aromas to the wine.
The wine has seasoned in the wood for a period more or less along according to the dimensions of the barrel for then have put in bottle and finally to the market.
The Consortia
It has ancient origins. It goes up again to the "League of the Chianti," authentic military alliance created from Florentine Republic for unite the populations of the villages in defense of their earths from Siena and from Pisa.
The League chose the Gallo Nero in field gold and uniforms his territory in three districts (said terzieri): Radda, Gaiole e Castellina.
To half of the 1400, decreased the dangers of invasion, the League devoted itself to the wine, establishing norms for the wine making and "defining when it was the moment of effect the vintage" not before September 29 day of S. Michael.
With the same spirit also today the Consortium protects and it promotes the image of the Chianti Wine Gallo Nero and it represent best part of the producers of the true zone of the Chianti that include the ancient League of the Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Barberino Val of Elsa, Poggibonsi, St. Casciano Valley of Pesa and Tavarnelle Valley of Pesa.
In fact it are called Chianti generically also the wine of other Tuscan districts that has grapes sangiovese like base.
D.O.C.G.
The "Denomination of Checked and Guaranteed Origin" it has recognized since the 1984 to succession of layout of the disciplinary with suitable the norms and rules of wine making:
the wine must be gotten from four grapes, two red (Sangiovese and Cannaiolo) and two white (Malvasia and they Thresh) with least percentages well definite. They can also be used, until to a maximum of the 10%, other red grapes what the Colorino, the Merlot and the Cabernet- Sauvignon.
the production is limited to a maximum of 75 quintals to hectare
the plant must cause the maximum 3 kilograms of grape
the alcoholic least gradation is of 12° for the normal wine and of 12.5° for that of the reserve
each quantity of wine must be subjected to the judgment of a ministerial errand.
Physical characteristics
Color: vivacious ruby, inclined to the pomegranate with the aging.
Perfume: intensely wine, also with perfume of sweet violet, strong, and with pronounced character of fineness in the phase of aging.
Taste: harmonic, dry, savory, that gets sharper with the time to the soft velvety.
Coupled
The red cooked meats to the grate are accompanied with the wines of middle body.
While the red cooked meats in a more elaborate way are from combine to the more complex wines.
The dishes of seasoned cheeses get married with the big reserves.
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