Clivo Altura Pinot Nero Le Bighellone 2024 CS20230713 L’Incandescent is a perfect match

L’Incandescent is a perfect match for duck with cherries

Stainless steel fermentiation and aging

and Tuesday nights

Remarkable clarity

13 hectares of organically farmed Pinot Noir

Clivo Altura Pinot Nero Le Bighellone 2024 CS20230713 L’Incandescent is a perfect matchPinot Nero in Chianti Classico sounds like a joke until you taste this. Clivo Altura farms a tiny parcel of Pinot Noir planted in the early 2000s at 700 meters above sea level, deep inside a 2,000 hectare forest near Castello di Fosini, where it gets too cool for Sangiovese to ripen reliably. The fruit goes in with 50% whole clusters for a two week maceration, then ages in tonneaux and small French oak. Only 1,050 bottles a year. It's an