Terre a Mano. Sassocarlo

Fattoria di Bacchereto da M. Rossella Bencini Tesi 
Toscana IGT
Grape: Trebbiano di Toscana (80%), Malvasia del Chianti (20%)

2018 A full, dry white with pure detailed fruit; hay, melon and apricot aromas; to taste, a touch of caramel, ripe lemon, thyme and nettle flavours in the fore.  A magnificent wine, totally lacking in ‘natural’ flavours and none the worse for that.
The 2018 was a small harvest, the quality was quite exceptional.  14%

2019 was a very hot, dry vintage; the resulting wine is magnificent and slightly unusual: typical mouth-filling tangerine and lemon is joined by greengage fruit, less hay than other years and more mint, ripe herb and honey.  13%

Production: 3500 bottles

Fattoria di Bacchereto da M. Rossella Bencini Tesi producer page

There are few white wines of note made in the hills of Carmignano, for decades Trebbiano and Malvasia have rarely been the focus for any great dry white wines.  This is changing, slowly, as fashions drift nostalgically to a bucolic era of pre-industrialised wines.  Rossella was one of the first to recognise the potential of this style of winemaking and it gets the best out of these native vines.
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 on mixed marl, clay, slate and sandstone soils.  The bunches are picked in the first week of October, skin ripeness is essential, they are de-stemmed before a wild yeast fermentation in concrete tanks and ageing in tonneaux* for 1 year, before bottling.  
This wine should be on everybody’s bucket list, it is evocative and expressive, a totally unique white wine.

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2016 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.