Toscana Rosso “Venti”

Wines

Venti is a word with two lives in Italian: it means both “twenty” and “winds.” Both meanings live in this bottle. Crafted to celebrate Querceto di Castellina’s 20th anniversary, Venti also honors the wind — one of the defining natural forces that sweeps across the estate’s hillside vineyards above Castellina in Chianti.

This is Jacopo Di Battista’s most ambitious wine: a single-vineyard selection of the estate’s finest Sangiovese and Merlot from the Belvedere parcel, each variety aged separately for twenty full months in French oak before spending another year settling into itself in bottle. The result is intense, dark, and decadent — blackberry, blueberry, and dark cherry laced with dried flowers, cocoa, vanilla, and a noble spice of pepper, cinnamon, and clove.

Bold yet elegant, structured yet generous, Venti is built to evolve for years to come. Produced in vanishingly small quantities and sold almost exclusively through the estate itself, this is Querceto’s rarest expression.

Appellation: Toscana IGT

Region: Toscana

Type: Red, dry

Varietals: 50% Sangiovese 50% Merlot

Wine Details:

Tasting Notes:

Color: Intense dark red.

Bouquet: Decadent and captivating — blackberry, blueberry, and dark cherry (marasca) with almond and seductive sweet spice: cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg. Dried flowers and a noble spiciness of pepper, cocoa, and vanilla round out the bouquet.

Palate:Cherries, blackberries, and plums meet chalky milk chocolate, black olive, and top soil. Structured yet forgiving tannins, plenty of acid, and a mouth-filling, lingering finish.

Serving Temperature: 18° C (64°/65° F).

Pairing: Grilled and roasted meats - bistecca, lamb, cinghiale (wild boar). Hearty pasta and bean dishes.

Vinyard Notes:

Soil: Medium in texture with limestone marl and is rich in minerals.

Altitude: 420-450 meters.

Vine density: 6,666 plants per hectare.

Training System: Cordon system.

Exposure: Southwest.

Winemaking Notes:

Aging: Sangiovese 20 months French oak (500 lt.), Merlot 20 months French oak (225 lt.), 12 months in the bottle. Production: Extremely limited — historically 800–1,200 bottles depending on vintage, sold primarily direct from the estate