Badia Passignano Gran Selezione
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2036
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-cooked wild boar ragù with pappardelle, grilled Bistecca alla Fiorentina, and aged Pecorino Toscano cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic estate surrounding the 11th-century Vallombrosian abbey of Badia a Passignano, this Chianti Classico Gran Selezione is a profound expression of pure Sangiovese. The monks who once inhabited the abbey were renowned for their viticultural expertise, a legacy that the Antinori family continues today. Grown in limestone-rich soils at an altitude of approximately 300 meters, the grapes benefit from a unique microclimate that yields intense aromatics and firm structure. The wine is aged in the ancient cellars directly beneath the monastery, predominantly utilizing Hungarian oak barrels which impart a refined spice and supple tannins without overpowering the vibrant cherry and herbal character typical of high-altitude Sangiovese.
🍾 About the Producer
Marchesi Antinori is one of the world's most storied winemaking dynasties, tracing its commercial viticultural heritage to 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori matriculated into Florence's Arte dei Vinattieri. Spanning twenty-six generations, the family revolutionized modern Italian viticulture under Marchese Piero Antinori and legendary enologist Giacomo Tachis, catalyzing the Super Tuscan revolution with the pioneering release of Tignanello in 1971. Antinori commands an unrivaled tapestry of microclimates across Central Italy, encompassing the galestro and albarese marls of Chianti Classico at Tenuta Tignanello and Badia a Passignano, the maritime gravels of Bolgheri at Guado al Tasso, and the fossiliferous clay-limestone soils of Umbria at Castello della Sala. In the cellar, CEO and chief enologist Renzo Cotarella orchestrates a balance of precision, clonal selection, and judicious French oak barrique maturation. Antinori's benchmark wines—including the Sangiovese-driven Tignanello, the Cabernet-dominated Solaia, and the benchmark Umbrian Chardonnay blend Cervaro della Sala—stand as definitive monuments of Italian winemaking refinement.
🍇 Grapes
Sangiovese (min 80%), Canaiolo, Colorino, Cabernet Sauvignon