Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 champagne-club and tropical fruit delights on

and tropical fruit delights on the nose

working entirely by hand

an old local name for the hives that once worked this hillside

Champ Divin is a small biodynamic estate in the Jura

deep palate presence

Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 champagne-club and tropical fruit delights onPaolo Coccia has more than seventy harvests behind him, which is not a typo. His family sharecropped this hillside in Lamole from the early 1900s and finally bought it outright in 1962; today he farms it with his daughter Serena and an all female family crew. Lamole is the high, cool, sandy corner of Chianti Classico, and the wines it makes are the light footed, floral, red fruited kind rather than the muscular kind three and a half hectares of vines,