The village of Lamole is said to be the birthplace of Sangiovese. A small village untouched by time, it still has the purest strains of the Sangiovese vine still in the world. Grafts of these vines were gifts to the Tuscans who in turn took it back to Tuscany and turned them into Brunello di Montalcino. The 2016 Chianti Classico Filetta di Lamole is a beautifully intense and direct expression that delivers a full bouquet of rich primary fruit with direct confidence and extreme precision. The wine is tight and streamlined with cooling fruit flavors of wild berry, cassis and sour cherry backed by linear mineral notes of crushed stone and flint. It is lightweight in terms of consistency with a fine and elegant close. Filetta di Lamole shows a slightly wild or untamed character within the greater Fontodi house style. The fruit comes from the cool-climate, high-altitude Lamole subregion (with vines planted at 600 meters above sea level), and this explains the wine's fragile and finely knit approach.