Tenuta del Trinoro

95/100 PP This is a beautiful wine with infinite depth. Born in a hot and dry vintage, the 2017 Tenuta di Trinoro (a blend of 69% Cabernet Franc, 23% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon) never steps over the line into jammy or overripe territory. In fact, the wine is masterfully restrained and elegantly managed. Andrea Franchetti dealt with a harvest that, as he put it, yielded tiny berries, all skin and seeds and no juice. I only feel the heat of the vintage in the tannins, which are a bit dryer and more astringent in this wine. This full-bodied Tuscan red boasts deep layers of black fruit, spice, tar and campfire ash. About 7,000 bottles were made. Give the wine an extra year or two of bottle aging to allow those tannins to soften up just a bit. (Monica Larner, robertparker.com) If I were to attempt to summarize Franchetti's approach to wine, I would settle on the word: 'oneness.' Here we have a single man, who makes a wine of a single style at the only wine estate that exists in this unexplored region. (Robert M. Parker, Jr.)
11 Monate im Zement-Tank und 8 Monate in teilweise neuen französischen Barriques, unfiltriert
Bewertung robertparker.com: 95/100, Bewertung Jahrgang: ****-*****/*****