$93.00 USD

Chiesamonti is a 1.3-hectare parcel adjacent to the town of San Felice in Castelnuovo Berardenga, with a stonier soil profile and a lower clay content than Giovanna’s home turf. The vines, now over a decade old, used to be blended into “Cinque” in their younger years, but they are ready for prime time, and this wine—bottled on its own for the first time with the 2018 vintage—provides a fascinating counterpoint to Le Trame: silkier, higher-toned, and overall prettier, with a more blatant mineral underpinning and less sumptuously fleshy fruit. It spends two years in Stockinger barrels just like its sister wine, and it comprises nearly entirely Sangiovese with a touch of Canaiolo. While marginally more structured than in a typical vintage, the 2022 Chiesamonti displays its usual throughline of red-fruited elegance and purity; this vintage, Giovanna redirected a portion of this parcel’s fruit into Le Trame (whose yields suffered more than Chiesamonti), thereby better maintaining its typicity and individuality.