{"id":6280,"date":"2018-02-12T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castellare.it\/?p=6280\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:34:36","slug":"i-sodi-di-s-niccolo-2013-first-italian-red-wine-according-to-the-leading-national-and-international-wine-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/news-en\/i-sodi-di-s-niccolo-2013-first-italian-red-wine-according-to-the-leading-national-and-international-wine-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"I SODI DI S.NICCOLO&#8217; 2013, FIRST ITALIAN RED WINE ACCORDING TO THE LEADING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WINE GUIDES"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>I Sodi di S. Niccol\u00f2 2013<\/strong> has achieved the title of <strong>&#8220;Best Italian Red Wine&#8221; 2018<\/strong> based on the sum of the scores collected by the main Italian wine guides &#8211; <strong>Gambero Rosso, Bibenda, Veronelli, Daniele Cernilli, Luca Maroni and Vitae<\/strong> &#8211; integrated with the ratings of the most influential international magazines: <strong>Robert Parker, James Suckling, Antonio Galloni and Wine Spectator<\/strong>.<!--more--><br><br>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sodi_english-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sodi_english\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sodi_english-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sodi_english-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sodi_english-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sodi_english.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br><br>The initial score of <strong>572 points<\/strong> collected from the italian guides, has been increased with the excellent scores given by <strong>Robert Parker (96), James Suckling (95), Antonio Galloni (95.5) and Wine Spectator (90)<\/strong>, leading I Sodi di S. Niccol\u00f2 2013 to the absolute primacy among the italian red wines.<br><br><br><br>\r\n\r\nAn important acknowledgement that, once again, confirms the sublime grandeur of <strong>Sangioveto<\/strong> (Sangiovese clone born from the first experimental vineyard in the Chianti Classico area, thanks to the partnership with the University of Milan and Florence and the San Michele all\u2019Adige Institute) accompanied by <strong>Malvasia Nera<\/strong>.<br><br><br><br>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/POST-CASTELALRE-1-2-18-e1518442686391-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"POST CASTELALRE 1-2-18\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/POST-CASTELALRE-1-2-18-e1518442686391-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/POST-CASTELALRE-1-2-18-e1518442686391-768x695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/POST-CASTELALRE-1-2-18-e1518442686391-1024x926.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/POST-CASTELALRE-1-2-18-e1518442686391.jpg 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\r\nThe complete ranking (image on the right), shows the podium of the first 5 Italian red wines:<br>\r\n\r\n<strong>1 &#8211; I Sodi di S. Niccol\u00f2 2013 with 948.5 points<br><\/strong>\r\n<strong>2 &#8211; Solaia Toscana 2014 with 945.5 points<br><\/strong>\r\n<strong>3 &#8211; Brunello di Montalcino Poggio al Vento Reserve 2010 with 943 points<br><\/strong>\r\n<strong>4 &#8211; Barolo Ornato 2013 with 942 points<br><\/strong>\r\n<strong>5 &#8211; Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Sergio Zingarelli 2013 with 935.5 points<br><br><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>&#8220;2013 has been a perfect year for I Sodi di S. Niccol\u00f2 &#8211; <\/em>says <strong>Alessandro Cellai<\/strong>, chief winemaker and CEO of Domini Castellare di Castellina group<em> &#8211; because all the crucial phases for the development of the plant, from flowering to fruit set, from ripening to maturation, have been accomplished in an optimal manner. We are proud of this excellent result which is also due to a scrupulous work in the vineyards according to the climatic conditions of the season&#8221;.<\/em><br><br>\r\n\r\nBut how was the unusual name of this wine born?\r\n\r\nThe word\u00a0<strong>Sodi<\/strong>\u00a0was used by the Tuscan peasants to describe those terrains that had to be hand-worked, being too hard (so that sodi) or too steep to allow the use of oxen, unlike the fields, that are more easily cultivable soils. Then, the name\u00a0<strong>San Niccol\u00f2<\/strong>\u00a0is derived from the Church of 1300s that rises in the property of Castellare around which the vineyards are located.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Sodi di S. Niccol\u00f2 2013 has achieved the title of &#8220;Best Italian Red Wine&#8221; 2018 based on the sum of the scores collected by the main Italian wine guides &#8211; Gambero Rosso, Bibenda, Veronelli, Daniele Cernilli, Luca Maroni and Vitae &#8211; integrated with the ratings of the most influential international magazines: Robert Parker, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,50],"tags":[78,103,104,77],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news-en","tag-castellare-di-castellina","tag-i-sodi-di-s-niccolo","tag-red-wine","tag-super-tuscan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castellare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}