"93/100 Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
Packaged with a wax capsule, the Riecine 2019 Chianti Classico Riserva (with 6,000 bottles made) is a silky and balanced expression with a lean, mid-weight mouthfeel and a long persistent finish. This Riserva blossoms slowly with complexity, revealing wild berry, earth, garden herb, blue flower and tarry road paving. It finishes with bright acidity."
Riecine has always followed a particular path whoever has been in charge. Founded by Englishman John Dunkley, and today run by the Frank family, the estate is committed to a natural approach. Certified organic and following biodynamic processes the land is gently nurtured with plants, flowers and grasses encouraged to flourish. This is all to promote vineyard diversity and the health of the land. Closely monitored pickers select only the best, ripest and cleanest bunches from the vines; everything else remains in the fields to return to the earth. With low sulphur additions, natural yeasts and long fermentation the wines are gently coaxed into the world. Adhering strictly to the belief in Sangiovese as the only variety that should be used, these incredible wines are honest examples of that over used phrase 'a true sense of place'.
