Le Pergole Torte, Toscana IGT

Specification

Producer

Montevertine

Region

Italy

Where

Radda in Chianti, Tuscany

Classification

Toscana IGT

Grapes

Sangiovese

Vintage

1995

Case

12 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

PERTOR9512X75

About this wine

Le Pergole Torte, first made in 1977, was one of the first wines in Chianti to be made entirely from Sangiovese. It comes from Montevertine’s own vineyards near Radda and is aged in oak. Fragrant and finely structured rather than heavy, it shows red cherry, herbs and earthy notes, and typically ages gracefully for twenty years or more.

About Montevertine

Montevertine is a small estate near Radda in Chianti, in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone. It was bought in 1967 by Sergio Manetti, a Tuscan industrialist, as a country retreat; the wines soon became serious, and the estate is now run by his son Martino Manetti.

Manetti believed Sangiovese could stand alone, and when the Chianti rules of the time did not allow his preferred approach he left the denomination, labelling his wines as table wine and later IGT. Montevertine farms traditionally and ages its wines in oak, producing pure, fine-boned Sangiovese. Its top wine, Le Pergole Torte, is one of Tuscany’s most admired reds.