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SKU: 3117
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"Crushendo" Castellina Supertuscan di Siena
Tuscany lies at the heart of Italian culture, language, literature and arts, and its
rolling hills are immortalized in the work of many famous Italian painters. Those
fertile hills, covered with olives and cypress trees along with vines, and the calciumrich
marl soil combine with endless Tuscan sunshine and cold nights (which help
retain intense varietal aromas) to make an ideal wine-growing environment.
In the 1970s Winemakers in Tuscany broke with traditions of Chianti making to
create undeniably great wines-the Supertuscans. They concentrated on a single
Italian grape (Sangiovese) instead of the usual number of red and whites that go
into traditional Chianti, and blended it with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, for
a uniquely Italian wine with both well finessed tannins and supple fruit. Ironically,
although Supertuscan wines are famous (and expensive) because they are made
outside the traditional Italian classification, they are sold only as humble 'vino di
tavola' (table wine)!
The bright cherry and lively fruit of Sangiovese matches brilliantly with the firm
structure of classic Cabernet Sauvignon and the dark fruit of Merlot. Named
for a hillside Tuscan village, Winexpert's Castellina Supertuscan is an immediately
appealing red that gets better with age. This wine is a dark-cherry color with
highlights of pretty, ruby-garnet. Bold, yet supple and expansive enough to be
consumed with great pleasure, the big, smoky, earthy nose of ultra-ripe cherry and
currant fruit is followed by a richly tannic finish.
Explaining Crushendo
The key to making red wine is in the skin of
the grapes.
The flesh of red grapes is pale yellow: most of the
color, flavor, and aroma compounds lie within
the skin. Traditional winemaking includes the
skin in with the fermenting wine to extract these
compounds. Until now, wine kits have been made
with unfermented juice soaked with skins, but without
alcohol (by law, kits can't contain alcohol).
As a result, some of the compounds were very
difficult to extract.
Now, by including the skins, and packaging them
separately, Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo kits
can deliver every nuance, all of the tannin, the
brilliant colors and flavors of a super-premium red
wine, with all the ageing potential and lush flavors
of the best commercial wines.
And it's easy! Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo
is as easy to make as our other Estate Series kits.
The Crushendo grape pack and the ultra-premium
vineyard-designated juices give brilliant aromas and
flavors, and a velvety tannic grip, to make a wine of
unique and piercing intensity.
- Instructions
- Contains 18 litres of concentrated verietal juice, yeast and all required additives
- Yields 6 gallons of wine or about 30 750ml bottles
- Ready to bottle in 8 weeks
- Age 6-12 months
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