Turín
Red · Medium-sweet
Carpano Antica Formula
Carpano
Turín, Italia
- Ageing
- Unaged
Category: Style
Chinato designates an Italian aromatised wine whose recipe incorporates cinchona, usually over wines with a marked regional identity.
Cinchona bark contributes an elegant bitterness balanced with sugar, spices and herbs. Barolo Chinato is its best-known example, though not every chinato starts from Barolo.
It shares a conceptual family with quinado and quinquina, but retains Italian terminology and tradition. Go deeper in quinados, quinquinas and chinatos.