{"id":4894,"date":"2020-05-25T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2020-05-26T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:12:22","slug":"monteraponi-chianti-classico-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/monteraponi-chianti-classico-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Monteraponi Chianti Classico 2016. Highly recommendable."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The vintage <strong>2016<\/strong> was great in Tuscany. A warm, regular summer allowed for perfect ripening; interesting diurnal range of temperature improved aromas developing and crispness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monteraponi is a boutique winery in Radda in Chianti, owned by the Florentine <strong>Braganti<\/strong> family. The wines produced by Michele Braganti have a very refined personality due to 2 reasons: the place, the winemaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Radda in Chianti<\/strong> is located in the northeastern part of the Chianti territory, that is closer to the Appenini mountains and far from the west coast. This makes it a very cool area, where wines tend to be lighter in body and have higher acidity. The subsoil is also very rocky here, made up of limestone (so called <em>Alberese<\/em>), which enhances character and precise tannins in the sangiovese wines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michele Braganti<\/strong> and his wife, <strong>Alessandra Deiana<\/strong>, oversee every aspect of production from vineyard management to wine making process. Their inspiration is Burgundy Pinot noir, a delicate and elegant wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chianti Classico 2016<\/strong>, I tasted yesterday, was very pure at the nose:  fresh red cherry and violet with hints of forrest floor, that reminds of a very traditional style. The taste was shaped by a crisp acidity, with precise and delicate tannins and the finish lingered with citrus fruit and salinity.  <strong>Easy to drink<\/strong> and very <strong>easy to pair with food<\/strong>! Highly recommendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vintage 2016 was great in Tuscany. A warm, regular summer allowed for perfect ripening; interesting diurnal range of temperature improved aromas developing and crispness. Monteraponi is a boutique winery in Radda in Chianti, owned by the Florentine Braganti family. The wines produced by Michele Braganti have a very refined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chianti-classico"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"it","enabled_languages":["en","it"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finewineitaly.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}