Medium-textured, predominantly calcareous marl breakdown of alberese and galestro limestones, with abuntant gravel pebble mixture.

Pugnitello is an ancient Tuscan native grape variety, whose name (little fist) refers to the shape of its cluster. Following its rediscovery, it has been researched, in collaboration with the universities of Florence and Pisa, in San Felice’s experimental vineyard. The wine is the fruit of 20 years of study and experimentation focused on saving native Tuscan grapes from extinction. Pugnitello is noteworthy for its distinctive characteristics, smoothness, and full-bodied concentration.

Terroir: The soil that gives life to wine 

Hectares of Vineyards

Olive Trees

15.000

This is where tradition combines with advanced technology. The 18th century cellars, carved out of rugged limestone, are extensive. You’ll be fascinated by the rows of red stained oak barrels and halls of vast steel vats, temperature controlled for fermentation. You’ll see teams of experts tasting, blending, balancing to produce the finest Chianti Classico. Their passion created in 1968 the first Supertuscan, our renowned Vigorello.

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People have bought wine from Borgo San Felice for more than 100 years. Today you can visit our contemporary enoteca for wine tastings from our three estates, San Felice, Campogiovanni in Montalcino and Bell’aja in Bolgheri. These are the most prestigious in Tuscany. We can arrange more in depth tasting, tours of our vineyards and cellars, and include food pairings. The experience will grow your knowledge and enhance your pleasure of wine. San Felice also produces extra virgin olive oil, grappa and vinsanto, which are available in our enoteca.

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Pugnitello

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Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

A mild winter 2020 made a very early bud breaking end of March. Unfortunately the night of March 25th the temperatures dropped down below 0 and the Sangiovese was strongly affected with a dramatic reduction of the yield. The spring was nice with a good amount of rain and several sunny days. The summer was great, warm but without many heat waves. The fruit reached a perfect ripening soon.

Winter 2019 was characterized by rains and snowfalls that allowed the deposit of water reserves; average spring temperatures favored an early april budbreak and high summer temperatures in June, July and August brought the grapes to perfect ripening. In general, the 2019 vintage has produced well balanced wines with an excellent aging potential.

Wine Spectator

2018 has begun with an early sprouting due to high temperatures in March and April, followed by a fairly rainy May. Temperatures have started to rise again since June; summer temperatures in the norm with scattered rains.  The month of September in particular saw a succession of sunny days but with a great thermal excursion between day and night, which allowed the grapes a proper phenolic and aromatic maturation.

Winter was quite mild and dry. At the end of March the vines sprouted at least 20 days in advance. In April, two cold nights slowed down the development without fortunately causing damage to the shoots. The summer drought has reduced the yields considerably while the quality was good thanks to some  cultivation techniques aimed at keeping the grapes shaded.

Winter was quite mild and rainy; elevated temperatures at the beginning of April have caused an early flowering of at least 10 days; after a regular May, the summer months were very hot, with temperatures high above seasonal average, with periodic rains that helped to maintain a good vegetative balance avoiding water distress. The ripening of the grapes was very good as well as the average quality of the wines produced.

Pugnitello

Alcohol

13.5%

Year

2020

Pugnitello

Tasting Notes and Pairings

Ground Characteristics

The

Terroir

Where

Pugnitello

is

born.

Vintage Characteristics

6000

18°

13.5% VOL

15-20 years years

5.6 G/L

0.5 G/L

L. 0,75

Vintage Characteristics

7.000

18°

13.8% VOL

15–20 years

5.5 G/L

0.5 G/L

L. 0,75

Vintage Characteristics

8.000

18°

14% VOL

15–20 years

5.4 G/L

-0.5 G/L

L. 0,75

Vintage Characteristics

8000

18°

13% VOL

15–20 years

5.2 G/L

-0.5 G/L

L. 0,75

Vintage Characteristics

8.000

18°

13.5% VOL

15-20 years

5.1 G/L

-0.5 G/L

L. 0,75

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