The 2008 Corzano e Paterno Terre di Corzano emphatically reinforces why we started shipping the wines of this producer several years ago. Lip smacking, mineral and juicy - just so thirst quenchingly seductive, this is a wine that is very hard to drink slowly. We remember the first time we tasted this wine, in the kitchen of one of the 500 year old farmhouses on the Corzano Estate. We had arrived late after the long drive from Piemonte and Aljoscha had handed us a bottle of this wine to have with our simple dinner. "It was a challenging year," he said, in his typically self-effacing way. "Nothing special." On the contrary the wine was so delicious that we imbibed it in an embarrassingly short time frame and had to wander down the dirt path to the main house to source another bottle! Nothing special? This was wonderful. And now it is in our warehouse, some 18 months it has lost none of its charm. It remains a beautifully poised, complex and refined expression of Chianti. It's made up of 90% Sangiovese and 10% Canaiolo, aged in a combination of large botti cask and older barriques. Hand harvested, with 80% of the wine spending approximately 12 months maturing, it is bursting with freshly picked bramble and cherry fruit, with a lick of umami and wild thyme. The palate delivers perfumed and luscious red fruit shrouded in barely perceptible fine tannins. There's a surprising mineral note as well as some hints of wet earth and it finishes with a wonderful freshness. This would heartily recommend itself to a dish of braised wild boar, however it will go with a wide variety of meats (even roast Chicken) and Italian fare. We encourage you to grab a case.