Terre a Mano. Vin Santo di Carmignano Christmas

Terre a Mano. Vin Santo di Carmignano ChristmasFattoria di Bacchereto da M. Rossella Bencini Tesi Vin Santo DOC Grapes: Malvasia and Trebbiano 14. 5% Fattoria di Bacchereto da M. Rossella Bencini Tesi producer page

This selection is a reminder that the world of wine is an impossibly expanding vinous universe

Montepulciano

At Il Poggiolo the Annata Brunello comes first

The finished wine is transferred to a mixture of large oak casks and some barrique for 8 to 12 month stint of maturation before being transferred to steel tanks before bottling

not quite the structure of Nebbiolo

a variety that rarely leaves the Trento

an unusual spicy character that really works in a wine of such huge intensity

The vineyards are above 350 metres and trained using a system known locally as Valdaostan Pergola

2013 produced a number of challenges: the spring was cold and wet and summer started late

Rosato Terre di Chieti IGT

although most of the wines are shipped directly from Italian estates

it is worlds apart from Zeni’s other wines