Maretti Chianti 2023
- 91
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Chianti has long been one of the most popular wine styles on the planet and remains so today. Tuscany, its home, is ground zero for good Sangiovese and 2020 was a superb vintage for the region. Fermentation was extended over fifteen days to ensure every ounce of flavour is crammed into the bottle and there was a further six months maturation. Again, great to see it under screw cap. Ruby/garnet in colour, this has lifted aromatics with notes of roast meats, leather, red fruits, warm earth, spices and tomato bushes. This is quite a savoury style, medium weight, and most appealing. The tannins are ever-so-fine but even so, there is substantial grip here and decent length. Attractive drinking over the next four to six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
