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Nozzole Chianti Classico Sangiovese with Pasta at Italian Village Chicago
Hosting a valued business partner leader, we dined at Italian Village Restaurant, Chicago, our usual locale for such occasions, downtown in the middle of the Loop, merely blocks from our office.
We took advantage of the private dining tables and the superb authentic Italian cuisine and accompanying quality wine by the glass offerings.
We both ordered the handmade Ravioli pasta, my guest the meat filled pillow shaped pasta, with the red meat bolognese sauce, and I selected the pasta stuffed with cremini and white mushrooms, garlic, ricotta and parmesan cheese with mushroom cream sauce (shown).
We were served by one of the IV veteran long tenured staff, Hans, and Wine Director Jared Gelband who gave my guest and me a
quick tour of their magnificent extensive Italian Village wine cellar that
serves all three of the IV restaurants.
To accompany our power lunch, he served from the extensive Wine Spectator Best of Award winelist, glasses from the WBTG offerings – Nozzole, Toscana, DOCG Chianti Classico Riserva – an ideal pairing with our pasta entree dishes.
Nozzole Chianti Classico Riserva, Toscana, DOCG 2018
This 100% Sangiovese is from Villa Nozzole run by owners Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari, heirs of the historic estate that dates back to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The founder, Lorenzo Folonari,
was born in Valtellina in 1729 and moved his family to Val Camonica, where they were entrepreneurs in trade and
then producing wine.
In 1882, the brothers Italo and Francesco Folonari moved the
company, then known as Fratelli Folonari, from Val Camonica
to Bresci. In 1911, they bought the historic Tuscan winery and producer Ruffino, widely known for its Chianti
Classico wines, bottled in traditional wine flasks wrapped in straw.
Today, the Villa di Nozzole is located in the heart of the historic Tenuta
di Nozzole, taken over by the Folonari family in 1971. The classic Renaissance
architecture castle and estate overlooking the vineyards, olive groves
and surrounding hills dates
back to the seventeenth century.
Principle Giovanni Folonari worked for Robert Mondavi in 1989 and Ruffino from
1991 to 2000 before forming Ambrogio e Giovanni Folonari Tenute.
The Nozzole estate produces a broad portfolio of wines starting with this Chianti Classico Riserva sourced from their estate just north of the village of Greve at Passo dei Pecorai in the heart of the Chianti
Classico region, and several single vineyard designated premium labels. The estate covers a striking, rugged,
mountainous area of about 1,000 acres at 300 meters in elevation. Yields are
kept low in order to obtain concentration and complexity in the wines.
Winemaker Notes: “Cherry and violet aromas, persistent and rounded flavors of spices and mushroom. Great structure with elegant finesse.”
This release was awarded 93 points by James Suckling and Wine Spectator.
Ruby colored, medium bodied, bright cherry and raspberry fruits with notes of floral, earth and tobacco on a moderate tangy acidic soft finish.
RM 89 points.
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