{"id":7063,"date":"2025-05-05T05:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/terraelectae-dinner-chianti-rufina\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T05:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:24:38","slug":"terraelectae-dinner-chianti-rufina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/terraelectae-dinner-chianti-rufina\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraelectae Dinner – Chianti Rufina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Terra9a\"<\/p>\n

\"Terra1a\"(Febraury 2025) …<\/strong> <\/em>Terraelectae: chosen land, special land, elected land – just some of the translations possible for this word on these bottles of wine. For me, “chosen land” fits best. This is single vineyard Sangiovese from a special part of Chianti known as Rufina.<\/p>\n

Rufina decided they wanted to follow the rules of Gran Selezione along with Chianti Classico – but they went one step further, making their wines 100% Sangiovese from a ‘cru’ (single vineyard \/ single plot) – which \"Terra2a\"is named right on the bottle. What we, as consumers, end up with, are a plethora of great wines that are also affordable, that shows off the diversity, the beauty, and passion of the winemakers from this area.<\/p>\n

Tonight, a dinner accompanied these wines, paired not only with food, but put up against one another: two wines per course, I rated the best wine presented and gave it a review.<\/p>\n

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\"Terra15a\"<\/p>\n

Colognole<\/strong> (wins between the first two wines)<\/span>: \"Terra3a\"
2021 Vigneto Le Rogaie<\/strong><\/span> … Fruit forward, but with enough acidity and weight to make it drinkable with food and\/or on its own.  (****)<\/p>\n

Vinae Montae<\/strong>
2021 Vigneto il Monte<\/strong><\/span>: An elegant wine that shows its dark fruit roots and spicy middle with good mocha and blackberry. Nice acid backbone.  (****)<\/p>\n

Marchesi Gondi<\/strong>
2020 Poggio Diamante<\/span><\/strong>: what a powerhouse wine, it’s a fist in a velvet glove. Dark fruit that leans bold and brilliant, a juicy core of pure fruity goodness backed by Sangiovese acidity. Total yum.  (****+)<\/p>\n

\"Terra8a\"Grignano<\/strong>
2021 Vigna Montefiesole<\/strong><\/span>: smooth and sexy, with creme de cassis, blackberry, good acidity and silky tannins.  (****+)<\/p>\n

Frescobaldi<\/strong>
2021 Vigna Montesodi<\/span><\/strong>: Mocha, smoky and black cherry – mouth filling fruit load with blackberry, black cherry and cassis. Tannins are silky and the acidity hides in the background until it is needed.  (**** ½)<\/p>\n

Selvapiana<\/strong>
2020 Vigneto Erchi<\/strong><\/span>: This was a big fight with a wine from I Veroni, but the Selva finally wins the battle with a good freshness and spice, but there’s also some balsamic-strawberry and cassis, mocha and subtle tannin – this is a delicious bottle of wine. Elegant and electric.  (**** ½)<\/p>\n

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(Febraury 2025) … Terraelectae: chosen land, special land, elected land – just some of the translations possible for this word on these bottles of wine. For me, “chosen land” fits best. This is single vineyard Sangiovese from a special part of Chianti known as Rufina. Rufina decided they wanted to follow the rules of Gran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}