A Ricasoli Wine Dinner at Lucciola NYC
A six-course Chianti Classico dinner with Barone Francesco Ricasoli on the Upper West Side, on October 22
Brolio Castle
Have you ever drink a wine that comes from a vineyard more than nine hundred years old? The bottle on the table has behind it a longer conversation than the one you are having over dinner, and the producer can tell you the entire story, in person.
On October 22, Lucciola NYC will host Barone Francesco Ricasoli for a six-course Italian wine dinner built around six labels from the Castello di Brolio estate in Gaiole in Chianti, Tuscany.
Ricasoli has been producing wine since 1141. In the 1870s, Bettino Ricasoli — the second Prime Minister of the young Kingdom of Italy, known as the Barone di Ferro — formalized what is essentially the modern recipe for Chianti Classico.
Baron Francesco Ricasoli
Six Wines, One Estate: The Ricasoli Single-Vineyard Project
The Brolio property covers a large tract of Chianti Classico in the Sienese hills — a landscape Baron Ricasoli described to us, when we asked about his favorite places in Tuscany, as the one where his heart stops. Within that single estate, the soils change over short distances. In recent years, Ricasoli has selected specific parcels of Sangiovese planted on different ground and vinified them separately, producing single-vineyard Gran Selezione from what is technically the same estate, the same grape, and often the same vintage.
The result is a project he calls unprecedented — Sangiovese vinified in purity from vineyards inside Brolio with "profoundly different identities." The result is the four Gran Selezione: Castello di Brolio, Colledilà, Roncicone, and CeniPrimo.
The dinner will have three of them.
The Dinner: Thursday, October 22,
on the Upper West Side
Format Six courses, six wines
Hosts Wine Director Alberto Ghezzi and Barone Francesco Ricasoli, in attendance
Price $300 per guest — seats are limited.
