Decanter: awards for Cabert

Decanter: awards for Cabert.

Decanter awarded Cabert’s Sauvignon 2025 with a Silver Medal.

THE STORY
Founded in 1960, in Bertiolo, Italy, CABERT has been synonymous with authenticity and the tradition of wine for over sixty years.

THE TERRITORY
The wines of the north-east of Italy are frontier wines, with a special identity having its roots in the commercial spirit of Venetian merchants, and in the challenges that winemakers have always had to face in this area, quickly learning to innovate, adapt and improve.

THEIR PHILOSOPHY: LOVE, LAND, TRADITION & INNOVATION
CABERT wines are born from the love we have for our land, and from a long wine-making tradition integrated with cutting-edge technological innovations. The result is extreme attention to detail throughout all stages of production, and a deep respect for the terroir, our vines, and all their peculiar qualities. The fruit of passion, commitment and love, we dedicate our wines to all those who already appreciate them, and to all those who will soon discover them.

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Podere Il Castellaccio: new high prize by Decanter

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Podere Il Castellaccio: new high prize by Decanter.

94 Points for the Bolgheri Superiore Il Castellaccio 2021.

Decanter Wine Awards

BOLGHERI SUPERIORE IL CASTELLACCIO 2021

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Grape variety: Cabernet Franc, Pugnitello
Climate: the area enjoys a temperate climate with very long summers that offer excellent exposure during the daytime. The winter is quite mild.
Training system: spur pruning system
Fermentation: the fermentation takes place by means of indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks temperature controlled with a maceration on the skins from 45 to 50 days.
Aging: after racking the wine is kept in French oak barriques for 12 months and in amphorae of ceramic composition for further 12 months. After bottling further ageing in bottles for at least 6 months.
What’s in the label?
The graphics were entrusted to an Italian artist from Castagneto Carducci, Andrea Carciola, here the thought of combining the two passions of the owner the horse and the terroir through the vineyard.
 

The producer:

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An historic Estate

The passion of one man marks the beginning of the history of Podere Il Castellaccio. In the 1960s, Luigi Corradini, the maternal grandfather of current owner Alessandro Scappini, found an estate of 18 hectares on the hills of Castagneto Carducci. The area is Bolgheri, a place that was not yet world famous and had nothing to recommend it other than the essence of the land and the potential it had to produce great wine.
To plant his first vineyards Luigi was only able to use grapes that were native to the Chianti and Scansano area. Thus were Pugnitello, Foglia Tonda, Sangiovese planted – just a few hectares, native wine varieties and a small wine cellar. Over the years, the management of the estate gradually transitioned into the hands of his son Roberto.

However, it was only in 2009 that the winery Podere Il Castellaccio was founded by Alessandro Scappini, the third generation in charge of the estate.
Alessandro Scappini, born and raised in Bolgheri, decided indeed to work with a 60 years old family vineyard planted with ancient varieties. In the meantime he also starts growing the signature grapes of the DOC and makes his debut on the market with its first Bolgheri wine with the vintage 2015. His path inside the DOC is completed in the vintage 2018 when his Bolgheri Superiore Il Castellaccio is born and it was released for the first time on the market at the begin of 2021.

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Podere Il Castellaccio is situated in Castagneto Carducci, across the seaward side of Segalari Hills, at an altitude of 194 meters a.s.l.
Due to its geographic position, the vineyards enjoy  a Mediterranean climate, with more solar radiations, a  better thermal excursion and a higher ventilation.

Not only Bolgheri 

“A sip from the past, while looking to the future” is the catchphrase used by this highly-manicured Bolgheri winery.

The family passion and the expertise added by the winemaker Attilio Pagli have the aim to tell the story of the region through the salvaging of ancient varieties that are inextricably linked to the tradition of Tuscan wine, specifically in the area of Bolgheri.
The older vineyards, occupying more than 2 hectares, are planted with Tuscan natives Sangiovese, Ciliegiolo, Foglia Tonda and Pugnitello.
 
6 labels:
castellaccio's wines

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