2024 UN PO 'Sotto le onde' Sangiovese.

Sotto le onde
: under the waves

FARM
Grown and made at Atavica in the Maremma. Tuscany, Italy.
Organic, hand-picked. 
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GRAPES
100% Sangiovese. 
Wild fermented. Zero additions. Zero sulphur.
Unfined. Unfiltered. 
12.5% Alc/vol.

FIELD
It's day 4 of the harvest. We've just finished picking Vermentino. The pickers have headed home. I wander out to the farthest Sangiovese field from the Atavica cantina to eat a bunch of grapes before lunch, sun blazing. "Luuuuuuucccaaaaaaa, call them back!" We knew we wanted an early-harvest pick of each Sangiovese block, for a very light and chillable red. The block I was eating was already perfect! We harvested multiple early, just-ripe parcels of Sangiovese from across the farm's fields over the next 3 weeks. Each was fermented separately in open vats, either 1,000L or 1,500L. Each was pressed slightly sweet (just before the end of primary fermentation, when there are still some sugars to ferment) into varying-sized barrels (220L to 1000L) plus one 1,000L stainless steel tank. All matured in these vessels separately for 8 months, then brought together for hand bottling. One wine, several uniquely wonderful cultivars of Sangiovese in this one (some famous as the primary strain used to make Brunello, some for Chianti, some for the local Sangiovese di Montecucco where the farm lies).

TASTING
Lovely flinty, ripe cherry and strawberry on the nose. Strawberry, sour plum, sour cherry, cranberry and pomegranate on the palate. Beautiful ripeness, fine tannins and crisp acid.

DRINKING NOTE
Incredible food wine. It will develop once opened, potentially over days. Enough structure to accompany rich dishes, delicate enough to match perfectly with very light dishes, or all alone. Lovely lightly chilled.

Label art by Una, Matt and Lentil's 3-year-old daughter.
Sketch made during the 2024 Italian harvest.