Denier-Handal Sagrantino (Summer Hold)

4 bottles for $82.99 $20.75/bottle + $2/bottle shipping Case of 12 for $189.99 $15.83/bottle + $1/bottle shipping Tasting notes & discussion 1

This wine will ship in OCTOBER 2025. If you want it ASAP, click here!

Typically $40/bottle from Handal-Denier Vineyards
Vintage 2018 & 2019 from the Dry Creek Valley
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About Handal-Denier Vineyards: “Though no longer farmers, we source grapes from our farming colleagues in the counties throughout California that follow high standards that include organic practices and support sustainability. These farming relationships ensure that our grapes will continue to produce award winning premium wines. We make single varietal wine as well as award winning blends.”

Sagrantino

TASTING NOTES:
2018 - “On the nose one may find aromas of caramel, fig and dried cherry that evolve on the palate into flavors of red cherry/strawberry fruit, burnt brown sugar and chewy chalky tannins that persist on the palate, showing this varietal’s characteristic balance between opulence and austerity. Our 2018 Sagrantino is fruity and rich in the mouth, elegant, tannic, and tangy making it a great food wine…” (AbV 15.3%, pH 3.80, RS < 0.1%)

2019 - “On the nose one may find aromas of caramel, toffee, dried fig and dried cherry that evolve on the palate into flavors of red cherry/strawberry fruit, burnt brown sugar and chewy chalky tannins that persist on the palate, showing this varietal’s characteristic balance between opulence and austerity. Our 2019 Sagrantino is dry and rich in the mouth, elegant, tannic, tangy and fruity making it a great food wine…” (AbV 15%, pH 3.80, RS < 0.1%)

VARIETALS: Sagrantino!

BARRELS: 22 months in French and American oak.

PAIRS WITH: Cured meats, sausage, pastas, biscotti and sweet pastries.

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Sagrantino.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think we’ve had Sagrantino alone before? From Umbria in Central Italy originally, it’s spread a little outside of Italy, as you can see by these ones from Sonoma. Those chewy tannins? Sagrantino has some of the highest tannic levels out there.

Interesting as well is that it has been used to make passito, a particularly sweet wine made out of dried grapes. So, raisin wine. That’s not this, though.

ICYMI, you have two choices:

Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from this sale, the page you’re on right now, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year (October)!
Want it ASAP, don’t think heat will be a problem? Order from the sale linked here! We’ll still try to get them to you with as little travel time as we can.

Denier-Handal Sagrantino (Summer Hold)

This wine will ship in OCTOBER 2025. If you want it ASAP, click here!

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