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Bolgheri DOC 'Cont'Ugo' 2022 (750 ml.) Antinori
Bolgheri "Cont’Ugo" by Antinori is a captivating wine produced at the renowned Tenuta Guado al Tasso, located in the prestigious Bolgheri DOC on the coast of the Alta Maremma, about 100 km southwest of Florence. This area, known as the “Bolgheri amphitheater,” is a flat plain surrounded by gentle hills that create an ideal microclimate for growing grapes. The wine is made from carefully selected Merlot grapes, fermented in stainless steel at controlled temperatures to preserve freshness and aromatic purity. It then ages for about a year in French oak barriques. "Cont’Ugo" stands out for its elegant, vertical structure, with a slightly tangy finish and a refined, complex bouquet featuring ripe red fruit, sweet spices, and subtle balsamic notes, all in perfect harmony.
- Product Category
- Red Wine
- Designation
- Bolgheri Rosso DOC
- Grape / Raw material
- merlot
- Vintage or Cuvée
- 2022
- Size
- 750 ml.
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- IT - Tuscany
- Alcohol Content
- 14% vol.
- Service Temperature
- 16° – 18° C.
- Suggested Glass
- Large calyx with a long stem
- Food Matches
- All Meal, Roasted Beef, Stewed Meat, Red Meat, Aged Cheese
- Allergens
- Contains sulphites (by sulphites we mean the sulphur dioxide that is added to wine, to preserve it, thanks to its disinfectant, antioxidant and stabilizing action)
ANT-CONT'UGO-2022
Antinori
The Antinori family has been dedicated to wine production for more than six hundred years: since 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri. Throughout its long history, through 26 generations, the family has always directly managed this activity with innovative and sometimes courageous choices but always maintaining unaltered respect for tradition and for the territory.
Today the company is managed by Albiera Antinori, with the support of the two sisters Allegra and Alessia, who are personally involved in the company's activities. Marchese Piero Antinori is currently the Honorary President of the company. Tradition, passion and intuition have been the driving qualities that have led the Marchesi Antinori to establish themselves as one of the main Italian wine producers. Every vintage, every land, every idea that one wants to implement is a new beginning, a new search for increasingly higher quality margins.
As Marchese Piero likes to say: “ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never inhibited our innovative spirit”. Over time, investments have been added to the estates in Tuscany and Umbria, the family’s historical heritage, in other areas suited to the production of quality wines both in Italy and abroad, where it was possible to undertake a new path of valorizing new “terroirs” with high viticultural potential. Marchesi Antinori expresses its passion for viticulture by seeking increasingly subtle margins of improvement. For this reason, continuous experiments are carried out in the vineyards and cellars with selections of clones of native and international grapes, types of cultivation, vineyard altitudes, fermentation methods and temperatures, traditional and modern winemaking techniques, different types of wood, size and age of the barrels, and varying the length of aging in the bottle. "We have demonstrated, over the years, that in Tuscany and Umbria there was the possibility of producing quality wines, recognized at an international level, that could show elegance and finesse while maintaining their original character.
Our library has many titles, but for us it is not rich enough. We have a mission that is not entirely accomplished, which pushes us to express the vast potential of our vineyards and to reconcile the new that remains to be discovered with the heritage of Tuscan taste that includes tradition, culture, agriculture, the artistic and literary that in fact represent the identity of Marchesi Antinori, one of whose major strengths lies in the fact of being Tuscan, or, if you prefer, our 'Tuscanness'." Piero Antinori
The Antinori family has been part, since its foundation, of PFV, "Premum Familiae Vini", an informal association of family-owned wineries. PFV goes beyond geographical borders and maintains a common bond: that of the ownership of the vineyards and the production of wine as a family activity to be cultivated and refined, like a great wine, over time.
Address:
via Cassia per Siena, 133 Loc. Bargino, 50026 San Casciano val di Pesa (FI) Italy
Color: ruby red
Bouquet: notes of cherry in alcohol, tobacco, candied orange and spices
Taste: vibrant, soft and persistent with a spicy aftertaste.
- Wine Spectator 94/100
- Luca Maroni 94/99
- James Suckling 93/100
- Falstaff 93/100
- Veronelli 92/100
- Vinous 91/100
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THE WINE
Bolgheri "Cont’Ugo" by Antinori is a captivating wine produced at the renowned Tenuta Guado al Tasso, located in the prestigious Bolgheri DOC on the coast of the Alta Maremma, about 100 km southwest of Florence. This area, known as the “Bolgheri amphitheater,” is a flat plain surrounded by gentle hills that create an ideal microclimate for growing grapes. The wine is made from carefully selected Merlot grapes, fermented in stainless steel at controlled temperatures to preserve freshness and aromatic purity. It then ages for about a year in French oak barriques. "Cont’Ugo" stands out for its elegant, vertical structure, with a slightly tangy finish and a refined, complex bouquet featuring ripe red fruit, sweet spices, and subtle balsamic notes, all in perfect harmony.
Guado al Tasso Estate is located near Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast, 96 kilometers (60 miles) to the southwest of Florence. The 300 hectares (750 acres) planted to vineyards on the property are in the center of the so-called” Bolgheri amphitheater”: rolling hillsides which surround a splendid plain which slopes gently towards the sea and create a micro-climate with unique characteristics. Guado al Tasso, the flagship wine of the estate, expresses all of the force and suppleness of this corner of the upper Maremma. It has contributed to raise Bolgheri to the level of the most important areas of Europe’s viticulture, expressing a decisively Mediterranean character of power, elegance, and balance.
Bolgheri, prestigious, small DOC where sitrova Guado al Tasso, is famous for rosé up from the 70s: for them and for whites, in 1984 received the recognition of the Denomination of Origin, then extended to the red in 1994 . The area is now best known and respected.
The seal area is more than 1,000 hectares of which 300 are planted with vines; There is also a forest, the Burnt Macchia, where they raised in the wildness of Cinta Senese pigs and other animals. The vineyards - at 45-60 meters high above sea level, on soils of varying composition - are planted with Vermentino, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, with small amounts of other varieties.
Thanks to the mild climate to the nearby presence
the sea and the constant breezes that mitigate the summer heat and winter cold and clean the sky and hold high the insolation index, here the harvest is done usually in late August, two weeks earlier than in the inland areas of Tuscany . An ideal climate for the small nursery where they grow the "cuttings", young plants of different varieties for other estates of the Antinori in Tuscany and Umbria.
THE COMPANY
The Antinori family has been making wine for over six hundred years when, in 1385, Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part dell 'Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri. Throughout its long history, spanning 26 generations, the family has always personally managed the business making innovative, sometimes courageous choices, always with unwavering respect for tradition and for the territory.
Today the company is headed by Albiera Antinori, with the support of the two sisters Allegra and Alessia, personally involved in the business activities. Marchese Piero Antinori is currently the Honorary President of the company. Tradition, passion and instinct have been the driving qualities that have led Marchesi Antinori to establish itself as one of the leading Italian wine producers.
Every vintage, every terroir, every idea you want to put in place is a new beginning, a new quest to raise our quality margins. As Marchese Piero loves to repeat: "ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never held back our innovative spirit." The estates of Tuscany and Umbria, historical heritage of the family, have been added with the time investment in other areas suitable for the production of quality wines both in Italy and abroad, where they could embark on a new path of exploitation of new " terroir "high production potential.
Marchesi Antinori expresses his passion for winemaking looking for improvement increasingly thin. Why increases in continuous experiments in the vineyards and cellars with selections of native and international clones of grapes, types of crops, vineyard altitudes, fermentation methods and temperatures, traditional and modern vinification techniques, different types of timber size and age of barrels , and varying the length of refining in the bottle.
"We have shown over the years that in Tuscany and Umbria it was possible to produce quality wines, recognized internationally, they could show elegance and refinement while maintaining the character originario.La Our library has many titles, but for us is not rich enough. We have a mission that is not fully accomplished, which pushes us to express the vast potential of our vineyards and reconcile again remains to be discovered with the heritage of the Tuscan taste that includes traditional, culture, agriculture, 'artistic and literary These things represent the identity of the Marchesi Antinori, one of the greatest strengths lies in the fact of being Tuscan, or if you prefer, our' Tuscan '. " Piero Antinori
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The Antinori family is part, since its foundation, the PFV, "Premum Familiae Vini", an informal association of wineries owned by a family. PFV goes beyond geographical borders and keeps a common bond: that of the vineyards properties and the production of wine as a family business to grow and improve, like a fine wine, over time. |