2019 Petrolo Galatrona Jeroboam (3 liter)

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Type of Wine | Red |
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Country | Italy |
Region | Tuscany |
Appellation | Toscana |
Winery | |
Vintage | 2019 |
Grape | |
Content (Alc) | 3 ltr (14%) |
Drink window | 2024 - 2043 |
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On a truly breathtaking location is the domain that belongs to the 4 best producers of Italy when it comes to Merlot. The title "Peter of Italy" goes annually to Masseto, La Ricolma, Redigaffi or Galatrona. The Petrolo is a fantastic Merlot and one of the greater wines from Tuscany.
The Merlot of Petrolo is planted in a ten-hectare plot characterized by thick clay soils. A maximum of 500 grams is harvested from a vine and is picked manually and only the finest fruit from the Mercatale Valdarno vineyard is allowed in the Galatrona. Fermentation lasted 14 days followed by a smooth malolactic fermentation. Afterwards the wine matures for about 18 months in new French barriques.
The Galatrona is the flagship wine of Luca Sanjust's Petrolo estate, not far from Arezzo in the Valdarno region of eastern Tuscany. The Galatrona is indeed a masterpiece to behold with a deep colour. The sultry bouquet consists of ripe fruit (black cherry), earthy notes and eucalyptus. The attack is full, the structure rich with a fruity character and impressions of toasted wood. Beautiful acidity that leaves a fresh mouth. This wine offers a thick layer and a deep intensity with aromas that offer an incredible range, starting with lush dark chocolate on one side and ending with fragrant white truffle at the end of its long aromatic trajectory. You get plummy fruit, spices, sweet tobacco and earthy notes. This full-bodied Merlot is soft in texture and juicy with a long-lasting flavour intensity.
This is a double magnum version of 3 liter. Even tastier, more festive and longer drinking window.
FACT: In the 'Attachments' tab you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will automatically send it to you when you order this wine. The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you come to collect the wine you will often also receive a nice discount . You will see your discount immediately when you choose 'Collection' on the checkout page. We are located in Dordrecht almost next to the A16 with plenty of parking. Click here for our address.
Specifications
Type of Wine | Red |
---|---|
Country | Italy |
Region | Tuscany |
Appellation | Toscana |
Icons | Icon Italy |
Winery | Petrolo |
Grape | Merlot |
Biological certified | No |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2019 |
Drinking as of | 2024 |
Drinking till | 2043 |
Alcohol % | 14 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 3 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 97 |
James Suckling rating | 99 |
Vinous rating | 96 |
Tasting Profiles | Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Rood fruit, Tannines, Vol |
Drink moments | Lekker luxe, Met vrienden, Open haard, Romantisch |
Professional Reviews
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 97
Reviewed by:
Monica Larner
Release Price:
$100
Drink Date:
2023 - 2045
Made with organic Merlot grapes, the Petrolo 2019 Galatrona is soft and luscious, spreading evenly over the palate with elegance and sweeping intensity. The bouquet shows dark fruit, black cherry and sweet prune. Those dark fruit tones are woven into pretty layers of spice, leather and perfumed tobacco. I like the tight, compact, yet fundamentally rich quality that is part of the mouthfeel in this important vintage. This wine could be considered a bit lighter and more ethereal compared to recent past releases, but I found that all the wines in this batch of new releases go in this same direction.
Published: Mar 31, 2022
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James Suckling
Petrolo Valdarno di Sopra Galatrona 2019
Thursday, July 21, 2022
CountryItaly
RegionTuscany
Vintage2019
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Score
99
The violets and flowers with some asphalt and blackberries are so enticing on the nose. Green olives, too. It’s full-bodied and very tight in the mid-palate and surrounded by fine, polished tannins. It has a unique mouth-feel. Very impressive and enticing. Try after 2025, but already seductive.
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Vinous
96
Drinking Window
2025 - 2039
From: Tuscany: New Releases from the Coast (Jul 2022)
The 2019 Galatrona is a gorgeous wine. It possesses striking depth, but with the freshness and delineation that is a signature these days. Blue/purple fruit, mocha, incense, espresso and lavender build in this potent, pure Merlot from the hills. The 2019 is one of the better recent vintages I can remember tasting.
- By Antonio Galloni on July 2022
Luca Sanjust turned out a gorgeous set of wines at Petrolo. This year, I especially like the Sangiovese Boggina, which is one of the best wines I have ever tasted here. The flagship Merlot Galatrona is not too far behind. There is a feeling of purity in the wines today that it so appealing. The only wine I did not find compelling is the Trebbiano, which is totally dominated by heavy reductive notes.
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Petrolo is located in the Vald'Arno di Sopra. This part of Chianti, largely covered with forests, has always been cultivated with vineyards and olive groves as the only crops that fit well in this land. An area with a long history and an ancient vocation in the production of great wines. We find traces of this in 1716 when Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, declared with an edict which areas had the most valuable productions of fine wine and quality olive oil. This edict recognized 4 areas, Chianti center (between Panzano and Greve), Carmignano (west of Florence), Pomino (east of Florence) and the Val d'Arno di Sopra (the western and eastern hills along the river Arno between Florence and Arezzo, where Petrolo belongs).
This vocation was confirmed a century later in 1834 by agronomist Giorgio Perrin, owner of Petrolo and member of the Accademia dei Gergofili of Florence. He celebrates Sangiovese and this land, especially that place called Campo Asciutto (now Bòggina), explaining how it was customary at that time to plant "French grapes" in Chianti to combine with Sangiovese, thanks to a soil that manages different varieties.
The estate was taken over in the 1940s by the Bazzocchi family who continued the tradition of carefully producing high quality wines with utmost dedication. The idiosyncrasies of this area add to its value; the land of Petrolo, where vineyards, olive groves and forests coexist and together with the soil form a rich ecosystem that contributes to a perfect balance between the different grape varieties.
The beautiful territory of Petrolo, in a constant balance between nature and the careful work of man, has allowed the creation of great wine and precious olive oil since ancient times.
The Petrolo vineyards extend over 31 hectares in the DOC Val d'Arno di Sopra appellation, bordering the southeastern Chianti Classico area. The vineyards are located at an altitude between 250 and 450 meters above sea level. and grow on moderately loose soil with a different mix of rocks such as marl, sandstone and slate, typical of the Chianti area. They trained about 5500 plants per hectare to produce a very low yield of about 20-25 Hl per hectare for a total of 650-700 Hl of wine.
The composition of the soil, the altitude and the exposure are among the most important elements that help to obtain wines with a distinct character. Everything else is tuned by passion and by the ability to listen to what the earth is learning every day.
San Marco
This 3 ha Sangiovese vineyard was planted over 45 years ago, part of it was replanted in the early 90s. From San Marco we produce the Torrione.
Galatron
The vineyard extends over 3 ha and was planted in 1990. Galatrona is the first Merlot vineyard that Petrolo has planted. The Galatrona wine has been produced from this vineyard since the very first bottling.
ferial
Part of the Galatrona vineyard, it was planted in the 90s and extends over about 5 ha. Made almost entirely from Merlot plants, the vineyard contains a few experiments of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The grapes are intended for the production of Galatrona.
Casariccio
One of Petrolo's Sangiovese vineyards produces for Torrione. Casariccio extends over 2 ha.
Lecceta
One of the winery's oldest vineyards with over 45 years of history. Some of his plants could very well be from the pre-philloxera period. Lecceta is only planted with Sangiovese for Torrione.
Asilo
This vineyard also produces for Torrione, extends over 2 ha and is planted with Sangiovese and Colorino.
Meletana
The 1 ha vineyard with Merlot, located in the area dominated by the Watchtower of Galatrona, surrounded by the estate's woods in a spectacular location.
Boggina
The winery's historic vineyard, planted in 1947 by Gastone Bazzocchi, father and grandfather of the owners who currently run the estate. The vineyard has always been the backbone and heart of Torrione, from 2006 the middle rows are selected for the production of the Bòggina wine, the cru of Sangiovese by Petrolo.
Vigna della Torre (Campo Lusso)
This high-density vineyard extends over about half a hectare, with about 5000 gobelet-trained plants (bush system), just below the old medieval watchtower of Galatrona, just under 500 m above sea level. The vineyard is located on beautiful natural terraces overlooking the Natural Park of the Chianti Hills recently produced for our cru of pure Cabernet Sauvignon, the Campolusso.
Campaccio
Beautiful vineyard of 1 ha planted near the tower of Galatrona in the middle of the woods. Sangiovese, producing for the Torrione.
Pianacci
Experimental vineyard, mainly Sangiovese for the Torrione, planted in collaboration with the province of Arezzo and the University of Agriculture of Milan (followed in particular by Prof. Scienza) and the CRA (Council for Research and Experiments for Agriculture, based in Milan).
Dottore
2 ha of vineyard produces Merlot for the Torrione.
Poggio
Part of the Galatrona vineyard of about 1.5 ha, planted with Merlot for the Galatrona.
We at Petrolo, winegrowers in the Vald'Arno di Sopra, disciples of Nepo da Galatrona, by tradition, culture and education Heraclitian, Dyonysian-Epicurian-Lucretian, Hermetic-Fician, Leonardesque Neo-Platonic and Giorgionesque Neo-Aristotelian, Romantics and Revolutionaries, we believe that God is in all things, and that the earth itself is God; and that everything is fertile, vital, wet, crackling, lush. And that man, through his divine element, is connected to heaven, and occupies in all things and in all places the core of the branched and highly complex configuration of animal and vegetable beings: the heart of that infinite affinity of all things which Universe is -World. And we winemakers, men and women who rush into the future with leaps and bounds, return to the original and the old, believing that the revelation of the world's breath was silent and just being still and listening to nature, as it intermittently appears, occult and enigmatic, shimmering like flashes of memory, leading us to dynamic future ways of wine from within, from top to bottom, from the future to the past. And we believe that wine, a great wine, is the poetic alchemical metamorphosis of nature into culture. And that only by having a light hand and a soft heart, we are sometimes able to bend nature to our feelings, humanize it and make it more beautiful, like a reality imagined in a dream. Wine is nature as dreamed by man, thus enhanced by sentiment; a wine that is great, a great wine, is nature transformed; which only at the moment of drinking elevates itself and its natural essence, as it immediately arouses desire and memories. All nature is in wine, but wine is not just nature. (Luca Sanjust, translation by Burton Anderson)
On a truly breathtaking location is the domain that belongs to the 4 best producers of Italy when it comes to Merlot. The title "Peter of Italy" goes annually to Masseto, La Ricolma, Redigaffi or Galatrona. The Petrolo is a fantastic Merlot and one of the greater wines from Tuscany.
The Merlot of Petrolo is planted in a ten-hectare plot characterized by thick clay soils. A maximum of 500 grams is harvested from a vine and is picked manually and only the finest fruit from the Mercatale Valdarno vineyard is allowed in the Galatrona. Fermentation lasted 14 days followed by a smooth malolactic fermentation. Afterwards the wine matures for about 18 months in new French barriques.
The Galatrona is the flagship wine of Luca Sanjust's Petrolo estate, not far from Arezzo in the Valdarno region of eastern Tuscany. The Galatrona is indeed a masterpiece to behold with a deep colour. The sultry bouquet consists of ripe fruit (black cherry), earthy notes and eucalyptus. The attack is full, the structure rich with a fruity character and impressions of toasted wood. Beautiful acidity that leaves a fresh mouth. This wine offers a thick layer and a deep intensity with aromas that offer an incredible range, starting with lush dark chocolate on one side and ending with fragrant white truffle at the end of its long aromatic trajectory. You get plummy fruit, spices, sweet tobacco and earthy notes. This full-bodied Merlot is soft in texture and juicy with a long-lasting flavour intensity.
This is a double magnum version of 3 liter. Even tastier, more festive and longer drinking window.
FACT: In the 'Attachments' tab you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will automatically send it to you when you order this wine. The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you come to collect the wine you will often also receive a nice discount . You will see your discount immediately when you choose 'Collection' on the checkout page. We are located in Dordrecht almost next to the A16 with plenty of parking. Click here for our address.
Type of Wine | Red |
---|---|
Country | Italy |
Region | Tuscany |
Appellation | Toscana |
Icons | Icon Italy |
Winery | Petrolo |
Grape | Merlot |
Biological certified | No |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2019 |
Drinking as of | 2024 |
Drinking till | 2043 |
Alcohol % | 14 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 3 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 97 |
James Suckling rating | 99 |
Vinous rating | 96 |
Tasting Profiles | Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Rood fruit, Tannines, Vol |
Drink moments | Lekker luxe, Met vrienden, Open haard, Romantisch |
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 97
Reviewed by:
Monica Larner
Release Price:
$100
Drink Date:
2023 - 2045
Made with organic Merlot grapes, the Petrolo 2019 Galatrona is soft and luscious, spreading evenly over the palate with elegance and sweeping intensity. The bouquet shows dark fruit, black cherry and sweet prune. Those dark fruit tones are woven into pretty layers of spice, leather and perfumed tobacco. I like the tight, compact, yet fundamentally rich quality that is part of the mouthfeel in this important vintage. This wine could be considered a bit lighter and more ethereal compared to recent past releases, but I found that all the wines in this batch of new releases go in this same direction.
Published: Mar 31, 2022
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
James Suckling
Petrolo Valdarno di Sopra Galatrona 2019
Thursday, July 21, 2022
CountryItaly
RegionTuscany
Vintage2019
CHECK PRICE
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Score
99
The violets and flowers with some asphalt and blackberries are so enticing on the nose. Green olives, too. It’s full-bodied and very tight in the mid-palate and surrounded by fine, polished tannins. It has a unique mouth-feel. Very impressive and enticing. Try after 2025, but already seductive.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
Vinous
96
Drinking Window
2025 - 2039
From: Tuscany: New Releases from the Coast (Jul 2022)
The 2019 Galatrona is a gorgeous wine. It possesses striking depth, but with the freshness and delineation that is a signature these days. Blue/purple fruit, mocha, incense, espresso and lavender build in this potent, pure Merlot from the hills. The 2019 is one of the better recent vintages I can remember tasting.
- By Antonio Galloni on July 2022
Luca Sanjust turned out a gorgeous set of wines at Petrolo. This year, I especially like the Sangiovese Boggina, which is one of the best wines I have ever tasted here. The flagship Merlot Galatrona is not too far behind. There is a feeling of purity in the wines today that it so appealing. The only wine I did not find compelling is the Trebbiano, which is totally dominated by heavy reductive notes.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
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Petrolo is located in the Vald'Arno di Sopra. This part of Chianti, largely covered with forests, has always been cultivated with vineyards and olive groves as the only crops that fit well in this land. An area with a long history and an ancient vocation in the production of great wines. We find traces of this in 1716 when Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, declared with an edict which areas had the most valuable productions of fine wine and quality olive oil. This edict recognized 4 areas, Chianti center (between Panzano and Greve), Carmignano (west of Florence), Pomino (east of Florence) and the Val d'Arno di Sopra (the western and eastern hills along the river Arno between Florence and Arezzo, where Petrolo belongs).
This vocation was confirmed a century later in 1834 by agronomist Giorgio Perrin, owner of Petrolo and member of the Accademia dei Gergofili of Florence. He celebrates Sangiovese and this land, especially that place called Campo Asciutto (now Bòggina), explaining how it was customary at that time to plant "French grapes" in Chianti to combine with Sangiovese, thanks to a soil that manages different varieties.
The estate was taken over in the 1940s by the Bazzocchi family who continued the tradition of carefully producing high quality wines with utmost dedication. The idiosyncrasies of this area add to its value; the land of Petrolo, where vineyards, olive groves and forests coexist and together with the soil form a rich ecosystem that contributes to a perfect balance between the different grape varieties.
The beautiful territory of Petrolo, in a constant balance between nature and the careful work of man, has allowed the creation of great wine and precious olive oil since ancient times.
The Petrolo vineyards extend over 31 hectares in the DOC Val d'Arno di Sopra appellation, bordering the southeastern Chianti Classico area. The vineyards are located at an altitude between 250 and 450 meters above sea level. and grow on moderately loose soil with a different mix of rocks such as marl, sandstone and slate, typical of the Chianti area. They trained about 5500 plants per hectare to produce a very low yield of about 20-25 Hl per hectare for a total of 650-700 Hl of wine.
The composition of the soil, the altitude and the exposure are among the most important elements that help to obtain wines with a distinct character. Everything else is tuned by passion and by the ability to listen to what the earth is learning every day.
San Marco
This 3 ha Sangiovese vineyard was planted over 45 years ago, part of it was replanted in the early 90s. From San Marco we produce the Torrione.
Galatron
The vineyard extends over 3 ha and was planted in 1990. Galatrona is the first Merlot vineyard that Petrolo has planted. The Galatrona wine has been produced from this vineyard since the very first bottling.
ferial
Part of the Galatrona vineyard, it was planted in the 90s and extends over about 5 ha. Made almost entirely from Merlot plants, the vineyard contains a few experiments of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The grapes are intended for the production of Galatrona.
Casariccio
One of Petrolo's Sangiovese vineyards produces for Torrione. Casariccio extends over 2 ha.
Lecceta
One of the winery's oldest vineyards with over 45 years of history. Some of his plants could very well be from the pre-philloxera period. Lecceta is only planted with Sangiovese for Torrione.
Asilo
This vineyard also produces for Torrione, extends over 2 ha and is planted with Sangiovese and Colorino.
Meletana
The 1 ha vineyard with Merlot, located in the area dominated by the Watchtower of Galatrona, surrounded by the estate's woods in a spectacular location.
Boggina
The winery's historic vineyard, planted in 1947 by Gastone Bazzocchi, father and grandfather of the owners who currently run the estate. The vineyard has always been the backbone and heart of Torrione, from 2006 the middle rows are selected for the production of the Bòggina wine, the cru of Sangiovese by Petrolo.
Vigna della Torre (Campo Lusso)
This high-density vineyard extends over about half a hectare, with about 5000 gobelet-trained plants (bush system), just below the old medieval watchtower of Galatrona, just under 500 m above sea level. The vineyard is located on beautiful natural terraces overlooking the Natural Park of the Chianti Hills recently produced for our cru of pure Cabernet Sauvignon, the Campolusso.
Campaccio
Beautiful vineyard of 1 ha planted near the tower of Galatrona in the middle of the woods. Sangiovese, producing for the Torrione.
Pianacci
Experimental vineyard, mainly Sangiovese for the Torrione, planted in collaboration with the province of Arezzo and the University of Agriculture of Milan (followed in particular by Prof. Scienza) and the CRA (Council for Research and Experiments for Agriculture, based in Milan).
Dottore
2 ha of vineyard produces Merlot for the Torrione.
Poggio
Part of the Galatrona vineyard of about 1.5 ha, planted with Merlot for the Galatrona.
We at Petrolo, winegrowers in the Vald'Arno di Sopra, disciples of Nepo da Galatrona, by tradition, culture and education Heraclitian, Dyonysian-Epicurian-Lucretian, Hermetic-Fician, Leonardesque Neo-Platonic and Giorgionesque Neo-Aristotelian, Romantics and Revolutionaries, we believe that God is in all things, and that the earth itself is God; and that everything is fertile, vital, wet, crackling, lush. And that man, through his divine element, is connected to heaven, and occupies in all things and in all places the core of the branched and highly complex configuration of animal and vegetable beings: the heart of that infinite affinity of all things which Universe is -World. And we winemakers, men and women who rush into the future with leaps and bounds, return to the original and the old, believing that the revelation of the world's breath was silent and just being still and listening to nature, as it intermittently appears, occult and enigmatic, shimmering like flashes of memory, leading us to dynamic future ways of wine from within, from top to bottom, from the future to the past. And we believe that wine, a great wine, is the poetic alchemical metamorphosis of nature into culture. And that only by having a light hand and a soft heart, we are sometimes able to bend nature to our feelings, humanize it and make it more beautiful, like a reality imagined in a dream. Wine is nature as dreamed by man, thus enhanced by sentiment; a wine that is great, a great wine, is nature transformed; which only at the moment of drinking elevates itself and its natural essence, as it immediately arouses desire and memories. All nature is in wine, but wine is not just nature. (Luca Sanjust, translation by Burton Anderson)