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Fattoria Rodano
Fattoria Rodano's Chianti Classico is 90% Sangiovese with a little Canaiolo and Colorino, aged 18 months mostly in big Slavonian oak casks. Cherry, violet and a leathery edge, with firm tannin. The 2024 costs about £17.58.
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Cherry and wild strawberry with a leathery, earthy edge. That is the house style of a Castellina estate that ferments with no added yeast and rests the wine 18 months in big Slavonian casks. The 2024 is a fresher, lighter year than the ones before it.
Cherry and wild strawberry lead, with a violet note and a leathery, earthy edge behind the fruit. The 2024 was a cool, rainy, long year in Chianti Classico, and that shows as lift and freshness rather than jammy ripeness. Tobacco and cedar sit at the back, from eighteen months in oak, most of it in large Slavonian casks.
Violet
Cherry
Plum
Strawberry
Tobacco
Forest Floor
Leather
CinnamonMedium-bodied, with the bright acidity that the cool, wet 2024 pushed higher than usual across Chianti Classico. The tannin is firm but fine. A ferment of about twenty days on the skins with no added yeast, then a long rest in big casks, softens it. Plum and red cherry fill the middle, with dried herbs and a touch of pepper.
Long and savoury: the earthy, leathery side outlasts the fruit. The Pozzesi family bottle it without fining or filtering, so an older bottle may carry a little sediment.
This is the estate's standard Chianti Classico, below the Riserva Viacosta. The Pozzesi family make it at Rodano near Castellina in Chianti and have sold their own bottles since 1967. Drink the 2024 from 2026 to 2029: a fresh, lighter year, so open it with food now rather than cellar it.
One shop sells the 2024 at about £17.58 for a 75 cl bottle, UK duty and VAT paid. There is no spread between shops to compare. The 2011 on this page is a 1.5 litre magnum from a second shop: a different size and a 15-year-old wine, not a cheaper or dearer version of the same bottle.
Magnum 150cl · 2011: £42.00, 1 UK retailer
Its strongest cards are Food and Beginner. Bright acidity and firm but fine tannin make sense at the table, in a style that reads as classic Chianti Classico from the first glass.
Bright Sangiovese acidity and firm but fine tannin make this a wine for the table: tomato sauces, roast and grilled meat, cured meat and hard cheese all work.
A classic Sangiovese expression from a family estate: cherry fruit, lively acidity, firm but fine tannin, 14.5%. Easy to understand with food, and the DOCG label says what it is.
The 2024 costs about £17.58 for a 75 cl bottle with UK tax paid. That is under what most family-estate Chianti Classico fetches in the UK.
About £17.58, 14.5% alcohol and a wine that likes food: midweek pasta rather than a cellar project, though the alcohol asks for a meal beside it.
Twelve months of required ageing, 14.5% alcohol and firm tannin give it a few years. Open the 2024 by 2029: it is a fresh year to drink young, not a Riserva to lay down.
A DOCG Chianti Classico from Castellina in Chianti carries some weight on a table, and the 2011 magnum sold here is a talking point. It is still the estate's standard wine, not its Riserva.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Chianti Classico denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
In Chianti Classico, 2024 was rainy in spring and again in September, with a harvest that ran into October and wines lighter and fresher than usual. The 2011 was the opposite: a dry, warm year that started up to a month early and gave forward, fruit-led wines for early drinking.
The 2024 was a cool, wet, late year in Chianti Classico: a rainy spring, rain again in late August and September, and a harvest that ran from mid September into October. The wines are fresher and lighter than recent years, and quality varies from estate to estate. Drink this one young, from 2026 to 2029.
The 2011 was a hot, dry year in Chianti Classico that started up to a month early. It gave forward, fruit-led wines for early drinking, uneven from estate to estate. At fifteen years this is a bottle to open now rather than keep. It is sold here as a 1.5 litre magnum.
The 2024 was a cool, wet, late year in Chianti Classico: a rainy spring, rain again in late August and September, and a harvest that ran from mid September into October. The wines are fresher and lighter than recent years, and quality varies from estate to estate. Drink this one young, from 2026 to 2029.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Rodano is a DOCG Chianti Classico from an estate that has sold its own bottles since 1967. The price carries 18 months of oak ageing, six more than the rules ask, and about £6.26 of UK tax.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Chianti Classico is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Chianti Classico falls within Tuscany, covering Firenze · Siena. The denomination is further divided into 11 sub-zones.
Wine route
Full day, longer with tastings · 5 stops
Open the driveMade at Fattoria Rodano.
Wine route in the zone: Strada Chiantigiana SR 222.
Rodano holds the wine 18 months, 80% in big Slavonian oak casks and 20% in small barrels. That is six months beyond the twelve the DOCG rules require, and every month is cellar space and stock not yet sold.
The estate ferments on the skins for around 20 days without added yeast, then bottles without clarifying or filtering. That is slower and less predictable than a quick commercial ferment, and it needs more hands in the cellar.
The estate's own site put Rodano at over 100 hectares, about 140 football pitches, a third of it in producing vines and the rest newly planted and not yet cropping. That scale spreads the cost of tractors, cellar and staff across far more bottles than a tiny Chianti estate can.
This is the Pozzesi family's everyday DOCG bottling. The Riserva Viacosta must age at least two years before release, so this wine carries none of that premium.
Of the £17.58 for a 75 cl 2024 at 14.5%, about £3.33 is alcohol duty and £2.93 is VAT. So about £6.26, over a third of the price, is tax before the wine itself is counted.
Dishes that go with this wine
The acidity cuts through tomato sauce and the tannin softens on grilled meat, which is why this Chianti Classico suits a ragù or a Fiorentina. Its earthy, leathery side after 18 months in oak also bridges to mushrooms and truffle.
Sangiovese's acidity matches the sharpness of a tomato sauce, so neither tastes sour next to the other. The cherry fruit in this Chianti Classico then reads sweeter against the tomato. A ragù or a Margherita is the classic Castellina table.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Pizza Margherita · Pizza Marinara · More pairings →
The firm Sangiovese tannin grips the protein in a steak and turns soft and silky. Fat from the meat does the rest, rounding the wine's edges. This is why a Chianti Classico works on a Fiorentina and a soft, low-tannin red just disappears.
Try with: Fiorentina steak · Sunday Roast Beef · Ribeye steak · Lamb chops
Salt in cured meat and aged cheese makes a dry red taste rounder and fruitier. Rodano's Chianti Classico, with its cherry fruit and earthy edge, meets salami and pecorino the way it would at the estate's own lunch table. Keep the cheese hard and salty; soft creamy cheese flattens the wine.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Strong cheddar cheese · Cheese board · Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
The leathery, earthy notes this wine picks up over eighteen months in big oak casks echo mushrooms and truffle. The bridge is aroma, not weight: a porcini risotto and a Chianti Classico smell of the same woodland floor. Pheasant sits in the same place.
Try with: Porcini mushroom risotto · Tagliatelle al tartufo di Acqualagna · Tajarin al Tartufo · Roast Pheasant · More pairings →
A medium-bodied Chianti Classico weighs about the same as a braise, so neither one overpowers the other. The wine's acidity also lifts a rich, slow-cooked sauce that would make a heavier red feel tiring. Lamb shank or ossobuco shows it well.
Try with: Ossobuco alla Milanese · Spezzatino di pecora · Agnello Ragu Lucano · Lamb shank · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes tannin taste harsh and the 14.5% alcohol burn, so a madras or a Sichuan dish fights this wine. Sweet sauces strip its fruit and leave only acid and tannin. Raw seafood and oysters bring out a metallic note from the tannin; pick a Vermentino di Sardegna, a crisp dry white, instead.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan chicken · Sweet and sour pork · Nigiri Sushi · Oysters · Pairing guide →
The 2024 is a fresh, lighter year: drink it from 2026 to 2029 rather than lay it down. The 2011 magnum comes from a hot, early vintage and is at the end of its run, so open it now. The wine is unfiltered: stand an older bottle up for a day before pouring.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Twelve months of required ageing, 14.5% alcohol and firm tannin give it a few years. Open the 2024 by 2029: it is a fresh year to drink young, not a Riserva to lay down.
£17.44 for a 75cl bottle of the 2024, at Decantalo, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from published drinker ratings, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt is 90% Sangiovese with 10% Canaiolo and Colorino, the estate's traditional Chianti Classico blend. All three are Tuscan red grapes, and the Chianti Classico rules allow up to 20% of grapes other than Sangiovese.
The grapes ferment for about 20 days on their skins with no added yeast, then the wine spends 18 months in oak: 80% in large Slavonian casks and 20% in small barrels. It is bottled without fining or filtering, so an older bottle may carry a little sediment.
Cherry and wild strawberry, a violet note, then leather, earth and tobacco from 18 months in oak. It is medium-bodied with bright acidity and firm but fine tannin, at 14.5% alcohol. The 2024 is fresher and lighter than the warm years before it.
Drink the 2024 between 2026 and 2029. It comes from a cool, rainy year that gave fresher, lighter Chianti Classico, better young than cellared. The 2011, sold here as a magnum, is a hot, early year now at the end of its run: open it rather than keep it.
Decantalo sells the 2024 in 75 cl at about £17.58 with UK duty and VAT included, so there is no price to compare between shops. The 2011 on this page is a 1.5 litre magnum from Orchard Wines at about £42. That is a different size and a 15-year-old wine, so the two prices are not the same bottle.
The Pozzesi family, at Fattoria di Rodano near Castellina in Chianti. Carlo Pozzesi bought the farm in 1958 and began planting vineyards. The first bottles were sold in 1967, and his grandson Enrico runs the estate today. The late Giulio Gambelli, the Sangiovese specialist, was a friend and consultant.
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