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Our wines have been reviewed with excellent results:
Duemilavini 2007 – AIS ( Italian Association sommelier-Rome)
Beautiful territory between Certaldo and San Casciano Val di Pesa, which contributes to represent worthily the denomination of the Chianti Colli Fiorentini. The investments and the efforts of the family Rocchi continue with increasing enthusiasm through planting of new vineyards and a great attention to the redefinition of the gamma, always more aimed at the characteristics of the territory. With each harvest thus, something new and a rearrangement in the composition of the blend. This year a good comeback of the Brecciolino and the first appearance of a Canaiolo in pureness with good body.
Il Brecciolino 2003 ( 4 bunches of grapes : score 85 – 90 )
Typology : Rosso Igt – Grapes : Sangiovese 85%, Petit Verdot 8%, Merlot 7%. Alcohol : 14% Bottles : 10.000
Bright ruby, with an impact of vanilla and pipe tobacco, followed by blackberry and mulberry marmalade. Full-bodied palate with masses of tannins and a toasty finish. 12 months in barrique.
Cooking suggestion : hare on the spit
Colli Dell’Etruria Centrale Bianco Vin Santo 1992 ( 4 bunches of grapes : score 85 – 90) Bottles : 2000
Typology : Bianco Dolce Doc – Grapes : Trebbiano 60% Malvasia (40%) – Alcohol: 18,5 %
Gold color, aromas of dates, dried figs, white pepper and coffee. Warm alcoholic mouth and good sapidity. Finish of toasted nuts. 84 months in wooden kegs of 100 lt.
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia Riserva 2004(3 bunches of grape)
Typology : Rosso Docg – Grapes : Sangiovese 90%, Cabernet Sauvignon 10% - Alcohol 14% - Bottles : 15.000
Compact ruby. Aromas of coffee and plum marmalade on a balsamic basis. Round and fresh with an almond finish.
12 months in barrique.
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004
Sangiovese 90% Merlot 10%
Intense ruby colour. Earthy nose, with traces of cherries in alcohol and pepper. Medium bodied, but with strong tannins and a agreeable acidity. 8 months in barrique.
Numero Otto 2005 – 100 % Black Canaiolo
Transparent ruby. Winy, with touches of raspberry and geranium. Fresh on the palate with soft tannins that makes it easy to drink and an easy accompaniment.
San Lorenzo 2005 – Trebbiano 50% Malvasia 50%
Pale yellow. Apple (Golden), mint and acacia. Great freshness and cleanness with a slightly almond finish.
Cement tank.
Bibenda Febbraio 2007 n.23
Score : 84
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004
Rosso Docg – Sangiovese 90%, Merlot 10% - 13,5%
Brilliant ruby, dark in the centre. Decided olfactory neatness in its perfumes of violet and carnation, cherry, tobacco and balsamic hints. Velvet impact that gives way to a good and dense tannin supported by a noble acidity. Good body and good recurrences of spices and humus. Long fruity persistence.
Roasted Cinta pork.
Score : 84
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia Riserva 2003
Rosso Docg – Sangiovese 90%, Cabernet Sauvignon 10% - 13,5%
Compact ruby. Liquorice, tobacco and dark spices crown the decided fruity evidence. A hint of rhubarb. Taste of a certain engagement, with a tannin that extends widely, supported by a good freshness and suggestions of chocolate, plum, tobacco and black pepper.
Veal médaillons in sauce.
Score : 80
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004
Rosso Docg – Sangiovese 100% - 13%
Very dark ruby and compact. Fruity nose and a light note of fumé. In the mouth : good tannin, releases flavours of fruit and liquorice, with some acidity that makes it easily drinkable. A contribution of wood still in the course of integration, determines a persistence with a light hint of almond.
Veal with mushrooms.
We hope that the link with the territory is reaching more and more the vineyard, as fully happens in the Chianti Classico.
…. Il Vigna La Quercia di Castelvecchio is demonstrating how this not only possible, but even more convenient for the vintners, who just aiming at the quality are able to give a new boost to the company’s profitability.
Vini d’Italia 2007 – Gambero Rosso (Slow Food Editore)
Let’s start this sheet dedicated to the Estate of the Rocchi family with a fair correction. The Chianti Santa Caterina that we tasted last year belonged to the vintage 2003 and thus the one we tasted this year is of 2004. The general result has been satisfactory, although not of the high level which Filippo Rocchi, the real motor of the winery for his lavish engagement either in the cellar as in the vineyard, has got used us to. All the work is carried out with great attention. Sometimes, however, things are not going as they were estimated and this year the quality sault, we had expected, has failed.
The Brecciolino ’03, the estate’s Supertuscan with a base of Sangiovese, Petit verdot and Merlot, has an impenetrable colour and a fruity nose with intriguing spicy marks of cinnamon and cloves. On the palate appears sweet, delicate with a good inclusion of the tannic component.
Less convincing is the Vigna La Quercia ’04 of the Chianti Colli Fiorentini, with at first a confusing nose that changes to animal perfumes of fur and leather. Mouth not too coordinated, although pulpy, with well-perceptible tannins.
Numero Otto ’05, Canaiolo in pureness, marks itself for its fresh tones, even with a slight taste of mint and a slim body, not oppressive, well supported by a tasty acid backbone.
Agreeable as always the Chianti Colli Fiorentini’04, simple but with a general good harmony. The
Chianti Santa Caterina ’04 appears lightly dried up by tannins, but is still easy to drink and has an appetizing finish.
Il Brecciolino ’03 – 2 glasses
Chianti Colli Fiorentini ’04 – 1 glass
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia ’03 – 2 glasses
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia ’04 – 1 glass
Chianti Santa Caterina ’04 – 1 glass
Numero Otto ’05 – 1 glass
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna L a Quercia 2003– 2 glasses
Il Brecciolino ’00 – 2 glasses
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Riserva ’01 – 2 glasses
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Riserva ’00 – 2 glasses
Il Brecciolino ’01 – 2 glasses
Il Brecciolino ’02 – 2 glasses
Numero otto ’03 – 2 glasses
Numero otto ’04-1 glass
L’Almanacco del Berebene 2007 – Gambero Rosso
Chianti Colli Fiorentini “Il Castelvecchio” 2004
Filippo Rocchi is one of the most enthusiastic producers of the denomination Colli Fiorentini, between the most dynamic ones of the Chianti territory. He believes in the Sangiovese, which he uses according to the typology of production.
The vintage 2004 has a fresh and sprightly perfume with floral marks and a well defined cherry, good body, juicy and savoury, but not too tannic. Excellent long and agreeable finish.
Luca Maroni – Annuario dei Migliori Vini Italiani 2007
Il Brecciolino 2003 (Score 86)
Consistency : 31 – Balance : 28 – Integrity : 27
Sensations : concentration and supreme spiciness of great softness. The strength of this wine is the dense and powerful mass of its extracts : impressive the concentration, hence the persistence of the taste. Excellent moreover is the balance of the taste : the smoothiness that one notices and that is counterbalanced very well by the acid nerve and a structural tannish backbone, not too bitter. Marked the woody spiceness, remarkable the remaining freshness : the fresh and tonic fruit. It’s well that the woody aroma is soft and convincing, so that it is always a pleasure to perceive a balsamic note, indeed intensely pulpy.
Guida dei vini Italiani 2007 – Luca Maroni
Il Brecciolino 2003: Score : 84 – Consistency : 31 – Balance : 28 – Integrity : 27
Numero Otto 2005: Score : 84 – Consistency : 28 – Balance : 26 – Integrity : 30
Chianti Riserva Vigna La Quercia 2004: Score : 83 – Consistency : 30 – Balance : 27 – Integrity : 26
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004: Score : 82 – Consistency : 30 – Balance : 26 – Integrity : 26
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004: Score : 82 – Consistency : 30 – Balance : 26 – Integrity : 26
Vinsanto Colli Etruria Centrale 1992: Score : 78 – Consistency : 31 – Balance : 25 – Integrity : 22
San Lorenzo 2005: Score : 73 – Consistency: 23 – Balance : 25 – Integrità : 25
Chianti Vigna La Quercia 2003: Score : 84 – Consistency : 30 – Balance : 27 – Integrity : 27
Conclusive comment: The qualitative improvement doesn’t limit itself to the increase of consistency and roundness, but concerns as well the integrity : the perception of cleaner and more fragrant aromas. Of strong olfactory intensity and of great freshness the
Chianti Riserva Vigna La Quercia 2004. Still of a major tone Il Numero Otto
2005, really intact its black cherry on the nose.
Champion of the Annuario dei Migliori ((Yearbook of the Best Wines 2007 – Luca Maroni) finally Il
Brecciolino 2003, by happy tradition. A gorgeous wine, round and turgid in its drapes of mint and spices.
Luca Maroni - Vini Italiani 2007 – I 500 migliori e più convenienti
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004
Index of agreeableness : 82 Consistency : 30 – Balance : 26 – Integrity : 26
I vini d’Italia 2007 – Le guide de l’Espresso
Filippo Rocchi manages with passion and competence the family estate with the intention of making wines not simply based on homologated models, though in harmony with the peculiar character of the proper vineyards. An admirable project that has to be pursued in the awareness that to realize it the road taken can be very satisfactory but at the same time, needs the right patience and perseverance. The results of the tastings are reassuring, but surely the ambitions of the owner are aiming higher.
Il Brecciolino 2003 (very good / 15.5 – 20)
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Riserva Vigna La Quercia 2004 (very good / 15-20)
Colli dell’Etruria Centrale Vinsanto 1992 (very good / 15-20)
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004 (good / 14,5 – 20)
Numero Otto 2005 ( good / 14,5 – 20)
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004 ( good / 14-20)
Guida Oro I vini di Veronelli 2007
IGT Il Brecciolino Rosso Toscano 2003 – score : 90 excellent
Numero Otto Rosso Toscano 2004 – score : 87 very good
San Lorenzo Bianco Toscano 2005 – score 85 first entry in this guide
DOCG Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004 – score : 86 very good
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Riserva Il Castelvecchio 2001 – score : very good
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Riserva Vigna La Quercia 2004 – score : 91 excellent
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004 – score : 85 – good
DOC Vin Santo Colli dell’Etruria Centrale 1992 – score : 86 very good
Enogea – Alessandro Masnaghetti Ottobre / Novembre 2006
The pirates of the Chianti
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004 – score 86
Not an easy wine, although with an intriguing mineral personality, nearly hydrocarbonic aftertaste. Good structure, with oak and tannins that still should blend. I’d wait still one year.
Superpirates for supertuscans
Il Brecciolino 2003 – score 88
The Brecciolino was never in such a good shape as in this vintage. Of course one notices still the oak, but it has a remarkable tannic backbone that is trustful for the future.
Wine Spectator – Great Wine values ( October 31, 2006)
Canaiolo Toscano Numero Otto 2005 - 86
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Il Castelvecchio 2004 - 82
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia Riserva 2004 - 87
Chianti Santa Caterina 2004 - 85
Rosso Toscano Igt Il Brecciolino - 88
Wine Spectator – October 2005
Chianti Colli Fiorentini Vigna La Quercia 2003 Score : 87
A round and fruity red with some cooked fruit and milk chocolate character. Medium-bodied, with soft tannins and a medium finish. Drink now. 1.000 cases made
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