Casse Basse Intistieti Soldera 1985

Casse Basse Intistieti Soldera 1985

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Casse Basse Intistieti Soldera 1985
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Casse Basse Intistieti Soldera 1985 is a rare Sangiovese from the late Gianfranco Soldera, produced at his Case Basse estate in Montalcino. Although labelled as a Vino da Tavola due to Soldera`s uncompromising standards and conflicts with the local consortium, it is essentially a declassified Brunello of the highest order. The 1985 vintage is a monumental wine, known for its ethereal aromatics of dried rose, forest floor and macerated cherries, supported by a structure of incredible finesse and longevity. Soldera’s natural approach – avoiding chemical fertilisers and using only indigenous yeasts and large Slavonian oak casks – resulted in a wine of profound purity and terroir-driven complexity.
89 Vinous
The 1985 Vino da Tavola Intistieti is soft, open-knit and fully mature. Macerated cherry, tobacco, mint, licorice and leather shape an attractive, mid-weight wine that is at its peak or slightly beyond. The Vino da Tavola Intistieti (as opposed to the Brunello from the same vineyard) is essentially a cask that was bottled with less time in barrel than the Brunello. At the time it was conceived, the Vino da Tavola Intistieti sat between the Rosso and Brunello in Soldera's lineup.Antonio Galloni1st October 2016

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Visionary Brunello with natural purity

The late Gianfranco Soldera was a visionary producer of some the purest and most ethereal expressions of Brunello di Montalcino. A former insurance broker, Soldera purchased his Case Basse estate in 1972. Until his death in 2019 at the age of 82, he was a zealous guardian of its unique terroir and the wines it produced.

With his botanist wife, Graziella, Soldera created Case Basse as an extraordinary ecosystem, including a two-hectare botanical park with more than 1,500 unique rose varieties, and a habitat for insect species that predate on vine parasites – thus allowing Soldera to forgo pesticides in his vineyards.

Beyond terroir, Soldera believed that the most important element for creating truly great wines was time. In practice, this meant slow fermentations (for a month or more), solely of free-run juice only, in large old slavonian oak vats without temperature control, followed by extended maturation in the same vessels – lasting up to six years for the flagship riserva bottlings.

With their trademark structure, hedonistic richness and beguiling aromatics, the wines of Soldera are unmistakeable. To have the opportunity to taste one at the peak of its maturity (such as the exquisite 1990), is a rare pleasure.

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