Aspects of several vineyard blocks include South, Northwest, and West, with slopes as high as 35% grade. Training systems for these blocks are guyot and spurred cordon. The soils are predominately calcareous-clay with heterogeneous profiles of Alberese limestone and Galestro marl.

Altitude: 340 metri s.l.m.

Soil Composition: Villa Rosa is situated between the hills of Castellina in Chianti, and extends over 126 hectares – of which 30 are vineyards and 15 are olive groves – of calcareous clay soils characterised by heterogeneous profiles that combine “alberese” limestone with marl shale. The estate’s morphology delineates three, distinct areas based on their oenological potential, where Sangiovese is the varietal that has adapted the most.

Plants per hectare: 4800

Pruning technique: Spurred Cordon

Anticipating a bouquet that reveals to be extremely elegant, characterized by floral notes that overlap and intertwine with a delicate fruitiness and slight hints of spiciness.

Offering a ripeness, tannic texture and progression granted only by the best years.

The mouth is sapid, balanced and always vibrant, with the tannin that stretches and opens up to a live end, tense and devoid of any edge.

The color is vivid and rarefied.

Roasted meat, game and aged cheese.

After 15 months in French oak, the Gran Selezione rests in concrete vessels in the months before bottling.