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%

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There are few white wines made in the hills of Carmignano, 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 20 years now!
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 these vines is 36. The topsoils 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

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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.