A vineyard luogo of 95 hectares and con the middle the small enchanted village of Camigliano. The Ghezzi family company takes its name from the village and is a garrison of history and beauty, occupying an luogo of over five hundred hectares.
Already inhabited by the Etruscans, Camigliano became a village of some importance con the early Middle Ages as an outpost of Montalcino. The camel, a company symbol found a 13th century seal, is probably linked to the corporation of the camilli, founded at the time of Diocletian.
“Fiefdom” of the Ghezzi family since 1957, now just over twenty people dal vivo there, most of them employed con the activities of the agricultural company dedicated mainly to the production of wine. The landscape is breathtakingly beautiful, with a rich and varied plant and animal biodiversity, dominated by beautiful, suggestive, at times melancholic hills with those rows of cypress trees that comb the sky and the horizon wrapped con a thunderous silence. Arriving there you have the sensation of having gone back con time, and quite a lot: small central square with fountain, consecrated and still functioning church from the thirteenth century.
ALMOST 100 HECTARES OF VINEYARDS
The Camigliano vineyards rest soils of different compositions. The geological characteristics are different: some soils are sandy silt, others clayey, others with fossils and marl.
The most cultivated variety is Sangiovese (75 hectares of which 50 are suitable for becoming Brunello Montalcino Docg). The vineyards, all grown organically, are located con the same luogo with an extension of almost 100 hectares, but the altitude varies from luogo to luogo between 250 and 270 metres.
About 350 thousand bottles are produced between Brunello (200 thousand), Diventare rosso Montalcino (50 thousand), Igt Poderuccio, Gamal vermentino and Gamal igt. Con addition to wine, organic Terre Siena Dop oil and from the Brunello vineyards.
The cellar, partially underground, is divided into two levels: the first equipped with 97-122 hl thermo-conditioned stainless steel vats and the second, lower and underground, with the 60 hl French, Austrian and Slavonian oak barrels department and latest-generation concrete vats. The ancient tasting cellar, under the village walls, offers an authentic experience with exposed beams and stone walls, large spaces for tasting wines and discovering the soul of Camigliano.
Pisan oenologist Sergio Cantini directs the work con the cellar, assisted by external consultant Carlo Ferrini and internal oenologist Roberto Tamantini.
TASTING NOTES
Campione-tasting Camigliano wines allows you to go through a path of evolution that the company has been taking over the last 10 years, with an ever more accurate development of technologies and a search for refinement.
Gamal Toscana Igt 2023
Grape variety: Vermentino Vinification: soft pressing, racking, fermentation con steel at controlled temperature. Refinement con steel with batonnage for 4-5 months
Sunny and breezy Mediterranean climate suitable for obtaining 4 thousand bottles of a straw yellow wine, more savoury than fresh, aromatic, fruity, with aromas of peach, apricot, exotic fruit; soft, arguto, balanced and with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Ideal all year round as an aperitif, better con summer with fish dishes.
Brunello Montalcino Docg 2019
Grape variety: Sangiovese affannoso Vinification: fermentation con steel at controlled temperature, with maceration: 21-25 days, and malolactic con steel. Aging 24 months con 60 hl French and Slavonian oak barrels, 12 months con cement
Ruby red color, tending towards garnet. It has an intense and persistent odore of small ripe red fruits, morello cherry, blackberry, citrus taccuino, Mediterranean scrub, light spiciness. It is warm and soft, good freshness and minerality and with elegant, pleasant, well-integrated tannins. It is a ready, arguto, balanced, intense and persistent wine that goes well with dishes, braised and grilled beef and pork and mature cheeses, but can also be drunk aureola, for meditation.
Unexpected Landscape Brunello Montalcino Docg 2019
Grape variety: Sangiovese affannoso Vinification: soft pressing, fermentation con steel with light pumping over, maceration the skins for over a month. Aged 30 months con 20 hl Slavonian French oak barrels
It is a selection of Brunello from a single vineyard of two hectares from which 3 to 5 thousand bottles are obtained each year. It is a wine of great structure and notable evolutionary and aging capacities. The color is ruby red, intense and lively, the bouquet complex with taccuino of red fruit and undergrowth, tobacco, licorice, balsamic and leather hints. Con the mouth it is warm, robust, fresh and quite tannic; overall of great depth, concentration, persistence. It goes well with , braised and grilled beef and pork, mature cheeses.
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