Carpineto Dogajolo Toscana Rosso 2023
£13.75
The wine
An innovative baby Super Tuscan. Dogajolo combines the power and deep flavour of a young wine with the elegance and balance that comes from oak ageing. Full bodied yet soft on the palate, with fruity cherry notes interlaced with coffee, vanilla and spice. Complex and well developed for the money.
Dogajolo Rosso pairs Sangiovese with Cabernet Sauvignon and gives it a short period in oak. The combination was radical in Tuscany a generation ago and is now thoroughly established: Cabernet fills the mid-palate that Sangiovese can leave hollow, and rounds off its firm acidity without smothering the cherry fruit.
The producer
Carpineto
View all Carpineto winesFounded at Greve in Chianti in 1967 by the Sacchet and Zaccheo families, Carpineto now farms 500 hectares across five estates: Chianti Classico, Alto Valdarno, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Brunello di Montalcino and the Maremma.
Holding land in all four of Tuscany's major red appellations is unusual and deliberate. Sangiovese behaves quite differently in each: firmer and more herbal in the cool hills of Chianti Classico, broader and earlier in Montepulciano, deeper and longer-lived on the warmer southern slopes of Montalcino. Farming all of them lets one house show the grape's full range rather than a single accent.
All five estates are carbon neutral. Carpineto holds VIVA sustainability certification, the Italian environment ministry's scheme, and is accredited to ISO 14001 and IFS. The estate has been named IWSC Italian Wine Producer of the Year, and was the first Italian winery ever to take the IWSC International Winemaker of the Year title. Antonio Zaccheo is now joined by his son Antonio junior.






