Vino Bianco Toscana IGT
Grape Trebbiano di Toscana (80%), Malvasia del Chianti (20%)

Honey, cinnamon, fresh vanilla and camomile on the nose. Deep, rich, mineral, apricot and ripe apple fruit. A grip of tannin, dried lemons and honey. An intense and profound wine.

There are few white wines made in the hills of Carmegnano, and Trebbiano and Malvasia are rarely the focus of any great dry white wine, but this wine is so far from ordinary and has been an obsession of mine for 15 years. The vineyard is farmed on biodynamic principals, it is just a hectare and a half of vines, planted at an unfashionably low density of 2778 vines per hectare; the average age of the vines is thirty five. The top soils are mixed marl, slate, limestone and sandstone, lying at an altitude of 250 metres. The yield is less than 3.5 tons per hectare.
The vines were harvested by hand in the first week of October as skin ripeness is so important for this wine. The bunches were de-stemmed before undergoing a light maceration prior to fermentation in concrete tanks utilising only the indigenous yeasts. When fermentation is complete, this wine is racked into tonneaux (350 litre Allier oak barrels) where it goes through malolactic conversion, remaining on the lees for just over a year. The wine as then bottled and matured before being released.
This is a wine that should be on the bucket list of all wine lovers, it is truly unique and amongst Italy’s most expressive white wines.

Production: 3500 bottles