Caparsa Chianti Classico Riserva Doccio Matteo 2021 SF Chronicle - Past Pick Full-bodied but with fresh acidity

Full-bodied but with fresh acidity throughout

vinified separately

and the kind of energy that makes you reach for a second glass

wines from a perpetual wine library created from his father's wines

Caparsa Chianti Classico Riserva Doccio Matteo 2021 SF Chronicle - Past Pick Full-bodied but with fresh acidityPaolo Cianferoni has run Caparsa since 1982, on the farm his father bought in 1965, and it shows in the wine: rugged, honest, entirely unbothered by fashion. Caparsa was one of Flatiron's very first loves in Chianti and there's never been a breakup. The estate sits in Radda, the highest and coolest corner of Chianti Classico, sometimes called the Chambolle Musigny of the zone for the ethereal red fruited Sangiovese it produces. Doccio a Matteo is the