Caparsa Chianti Classico "Doccio a Matteo" 1999
Sour cherries and sandalwood; crisp, bright red fruit, ripe but crunchy and dangerously moreish. IIRC, after the 1997 vintage, Caparsa started to use Barriques for this cuvée - but I see no new wood aromas at all in this wine. Instead, it seems like the Platonic ideal of Sangiovese. Outstanding, perhaps? Only Podere le Boncie's "Le Trame" has been as breathtakingly pure - in my admittedly limited experience of Chianti.

