ChiaraCondelloRomagnaSangioveseRiserva‘LeLucciole’2020

<p>Committed to revitalising the vineyards of Emilia-Romagna’s Predappio region and its native Sangiovese clone, Chiara Condello is a gifted young vigneron whose wines are not to be missed.</p><p>After completing an economics degree in Milan, Chiara decided to spend the summer helping at her family’s winery before starting on the corporate ladder – but feeling at home among the vines, she decided instead to embark on a career in wine.</p><p>In 2015, Chiara saw enormous potential in the old, forest-adjacent vineyards in the foothills of the Apennines which their owners had intended to pull up. She gradually bought up small parcels and now farms 10ha of Sangiovese di Predappio – a thick-skinned Sangiovese clone native to the region, which produces gorgeous wines with fruit-forward aromatics.</p><p>While Chiara’s single-vineyard cuvée ‘Le Lucciole’ Riserva has carved out a place as one of Romagna’s top wines, her Sangiovese Predappio provides astonishing value at £29. A blend of three vineyards fermented in open-top containers and aged in large vessels, it offers waves of spicy, whole-cluster fruit and powdery tannins on a powerful frame. 92+ Points, Vinous</p>