Chiesamonti Rosso di Toscana

Chiesamonti is a 1.3-hectare parcel adjacent to the town of San Felice in Castelnuovo Berardenga, with a stonier soil profile and a lower clay content than Giovanna’s backyard vineyard which comprises “Le Trame.” The vines, now over a decade old, were blended into “Cinque” in their youngest years, but have been employed in a separate bottling since the 2018 vintage. “Chiesamonti” provides a fascinating counterpoint to “Le Trame”: silkier, higher-toned, and overall prettier, with a more blatant mineral underpinning and less sumptuously fleshy fruit. Made nearly entirely from Sangiovese with a touch of Canaiolo, it spends two years in wood just like its sister wine, but with a higher proportion of used 500- and 600-liter barrels.