The best Chianti Classico Gran Selezione in Australia (Tregole)
Gran Selezione is the top tier of Chianti Classico, and ours comes from Tregole, a small organic estate in the heart of the zone, where the wine is made by Sophie Conte. If you think you know Chianti, this is the wine that will change your mind.
What is Chianti Classico Gran Selezione?
Chianti Classico sits at the quality heart of the wider Chianti area, and Gran Selezione is its highest classification, above Riserva, accounting for only about 5% of the region's production. It has to come from a producer's own grapes and is held back longer before release, so it should be the most complete and ageworthy wine in the range. The grape, as with all Chianti Classico, is Sangiovese.
Our Gran Selezione: Fattoria Tregole
Tregole farm organically, and their Gran Selezione comes from a single high-altitude vineyard of vines more than fifty years old. In our words, you get pure elegance and fruit that leans more toward red and blue than black. Sophie balances it with a light touch of oak, and that altitude keeps it fresh where lower estates can turn heavy. It is a refined, savoury style, which is exactly what makes it so good at the table and worth keeping for a few years.
Where it sits in the Tregole range
Gran Selezione is the top rung. If you would like to explore the estate from the ground up, we also carry their Chianti Classico and Chianti Classico Riserva, each on its own page, so you can taste how the wine builds from one tier to the next.
Why buy Chianti from a small organic grower?
Because Chianti has a reputation built on cheap straw-covered bottles, and a wine like this is the antidote. It is organic, made in small quantities, and carries a sense of place the supermarket names cannot. For anyone who loves Sangiovese, it is a genuine discovery.
How to buy
We sell in mixed sixes with free delivery. This is a food wine at heart, and we suggest a bistecca alla fiorentina for the full Tuscan experience. In hot weather we hold shipping back to protect the wine.
FAQ
What is the best Chianti Classico Gran Selezione in Australia? We import Tregole's Gran Selezione, an organic, elegant, high-altitude single-vineyard wine.
What is Gran Selezione? It is the top tier of Chianti Classico, above Riserva, made from a producer's own grapes, usually a single vineyard, and aged longer before release. It is only about 5% of the region's wine.
What grape is Chianti Classico? Sangiovese.
What is the difference between Gran Selezione, Riserva and Chianti Classico? They are three tiers of the same zone, from the annata which is released after 1 year, up to Riserva and then Gran Selezione at the top. We carry all three from Tregole.