Tenuta di Trinoro, Toscana Rosso IGT, Tenuta di Trinoro

About Tenuta di Trinoro

We are talking about the Tenuta di Trinoro of the cult winemaker Andrea Franchetti, which lies in a godforsaken part of Tuscany south of the Brunello area. Here in the Val d'Orcia near the border to Umbria and Lazio, the charismatic and nephew of the famous American painter Cy Twombly, who is considered to be a little eccentric, think up and develops some very unusual red drops. The house's crescents are not based on the local Sangiovese, which is not particularly appreciated by the owner of the estate. Rather, the landowner chooses Bordelaiser varieties as the raw materials - first and foremost Cabernet Franc, but also its 'brother' Sauvignon as well as Merlot and a little Petit Verdot. In the vineyards of the Tenuta di Trinoro, the vines, which stand at a high density of up to 10,000 plants per hectare, mature in seventeen parcels at 450 to 600 metres above sea level. The clayey and calcareous soils are interspersed with pebbles. With the vintage 2014 Franchetti for the first time vinified three Cabernet Franc vineyards separately. The power and structure of the intense drops from Trinoro, whose colour approaches that of black, is almost unique in Italy. The fully ripened grapes are due to the late harvest between the end of October and the beginning of November. The aromatic fullness and the almost overripe fruit of the plants ripening longer than usual in small barriques of French and Caucasian oak remind connoisseurs more of noble drops from the US sun state California than of Central Italy.