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Red Bottle overall rating:
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A fresh and fruity red. Perfect in its style.
Best served at a temperature of 18-20°
with game, roast meats, tuscan appetizers.
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Sangiovese is believed to have originated in
tuscany, where it dominates today. Sangiovese wines
vary immensely depending on where the grapes are
grown, how they're grown (the yield allowed), and
which of the many subvarieties they're made from.
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Picture
on top: TITIAN (TIZIANO)
Sacred and Profane Love (detail) - 1514 -
Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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A
bit of history:
TITIAN (TIZIANO Vecelli)
(1490 - 1576) |
The
figure bearing the burning flame of God's love symbolizes
`eternal happiness in heaven'
In 1899, the Rothschilds offered to buy this world
famous work at a price that was higher than the
estimated value of the Villa Borghese and all its
works of art (4,000,000 Lire as opposed to 3,600,000
Lire) . However, Titian's Sacred and Profane Love
has remained and virtually become the symbol of
the Borghese Gallery itself.
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Titian is considered to have been the greatest 16th-century
Venetian painter, and the shaper of the Venetian
coloristic and painterly tradition. He is one of
the key figures in the history of Western art. Titian,
whose name in Italian is Tiziano Vecellio, was born
in Pieve di Cadore, north of Venice, by his own
account in 1477; many modern scholars prefer to
advance the date to about 1487. In Venice, he studied
with Gentile Bellini and then with Giovanni Bellini,
but only the latter left a lasting imprint on his
style.
Titian's most important innovations in the years
from 1530 to 1550 were made in portraiture. In 1516
he had been named official painter to the Venetian
state; thereafter he worked at the courts of Ferrara
and Mantua. In the 1530s and ‘40s he traveled
to Bologna to paint the Emperor Charles V and Pope
Paul III, and at the pope's behest he visited Rome
and met Michelangelo. He joined the court of Charles
V at Augsburg, Germany, in 1548 and 1550. As a result
of this connection, he obtained a multitude of portrait
commissions.
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Aristocratic impersonality and restrained opulence,
as in the portrait of Federigo Gonzaga (circa 1526,
Prado), became the dominant tone. The neutral atmospheric
backgrounds of the earlier portraits might be replaced
by cannily disposed elements of setting, such as
a column, a curtain, or a view into landscape. These
elements, and the patterns in which Titian arranged
them, remained staples of formal portraiture into
the 20th century. In general, these court portraits
are images of command rather than explorations of
personality. In some portraits of the 1540s, however,
such as Pietro Aretino (Frick Collection, New York)
or Pope Paul III (1543, Capodimonte Museum, Naples),
Titian used his unsurpassed skills as a visual dramatist
to compel the viewer's participation in the sitter's
inner life.
Titian died in Venice on August 27, 1576. His work,
which permanently affected the course of European
painting, provided an alternative, of equal power
and attractiveness, to the linear and sculptural
Florentine tradition championed by Michelangelo
and Raphael; this alternative, eagerly taken up
by Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt,
Eugène Delacroix, and the impressionists,
is still vital today. In its own right, moreover,
Titian's work often attains the very highest reach
of human achievement in the visual arts. |
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'Le Tornaie'
is a high hill vineyard, which lays in the neighbourhood
of an ancient Etruscan furnace. Vinification made
with a maceration of 7-8 days at 26°C to preserve
the grapes aroma. Refinement and ageing were made
in medium size Slavonian oaks for 12 months and in
bottle for 3/6 months. The result is a fresh wine
with a good intensity, a nice ruby colour and mature
red fruits fragrances.
The flavour is round, tender and soft, with a good
structure.
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TUSCANY
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| Label: |
LE TORNAIE
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| Winery: |
Fattoria Marengo Emilio
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| Alcoholic vol.: |
12,5%
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| Residual
sugar: |
XXX g/l
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| Acids: |
5.60 g/l (tartaric)
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| Grape varieties: |
Sangiovese (80%), Canaiolo
(20%)
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| Production: |
40000 bottles
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| Aging: |
12 months in medium sized Slavonian
oak casks, 6 months in bottle.
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| Bottle: |
750 ml bottle
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| Packing: |
6 bottles
box - cilyndrical bottle
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| Code: |
RBMA03
- 1 x 750 ml bottle
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Loris
says: |
Attractive
and fresh...
A medium-bodied Chianti, with attractive
cherry and berry character, light tannins and a
fresh finish. Round, tender and soft, with a good
structure.
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Marco
says: |
A
fruity wine for red meats...
Fresh and fruity red, with dried
cherry and berry character, medium body and a fresh
finish. I usually drink it with red meats and roasts. |
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you know?... |
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Tips
& Tricks:
WINE TIPS
(Find more on our web site...) |
Finish:
The
tactile and flavor impressions left in the mouth
while a beverage is being swallowed. Some beverages
finish harsh, hot, and astringent, while others
are smooth, soft, and elegant.
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Grape
varieties:
CANAIOLO
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A red wine grape grown in Italy's tuscany,
umbria, latium, marche, and emilia-romagna
regions. Canaiolo Nero, as it's officially
known, produces slightly bitter, rather bland
wine that becomes part of the traditional
blend for chianti wine. Chianti's DOCG rules
for allowable grapes were changed in 1984,
and Canaiolo's role was reduced from the 10-30
percent range to less than 10 percent. Naturally,
this stimulated an acreage reduction in some
areas. This variety, sometimes called Cagnina,
is occasionally made into a red dessert wine
by that same name. Canaiolo has many synonyms
including Caccione Nero, Tindilloro, Uva Canina,
and Uva Merla.
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Tips
& Tricks:
WINE AGING
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Why red wines are more suited
to age?
Wine characteristics
(colour, scent and taste) change during aging. The
speed of these mutations depends on wine chemical
characteristics, above all preserving elements as
alcohol, tannins and acids: the more preserving
elements are inside a wine, the more the same wine
can age.
You can find alcohol and acids in all kind of wines,
but you can normally find tannins only in red ones;
for this reason reds are more suited to age.
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