There are historic hyperlinks between the world and the Frescobaldi household, which can make Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG wines at Tenuta Calimaia.
Frescobaldi initially acquired the property final yr, when it was often called Corte alla Flora, and has now relaunched it throughout the group’s portfolio of Tuscan wineries.
Tenuta Calimaia vineyards. Photograph credit score: Marchesi Frescobaldi.
Montepulciano’s magnificence ‘is actually breath-taking’, mentioned Lamberto Frescobaldi, president of Marchesi Frescobaldi.
‘Right here, in 1390, our ancestor Lionardo di Niccolò Frescobaldi served as Mayor, and as we speak it’s our want to resume our household’s dedication to a world-famous winegrowing and cultural space with such traditionally deep and nonetheless very important roots.’
Situated 300 metres above sea stage within the village of Cervognano, Tenuta Calimaia now has 70 hectares of winery and is predominantly planted to Prugnolo Gentile, a neighborhood cultivar of Sangiovese, in keeping with a spokesperson. There may be additionally some Merlot and Syrah.
Photograph credit score: Marchesi Frescobaldi.
Frescobaldi just lately accomplished its second harvest on the property, in a 2022 classic that the group mentioned is about to yield some excellent wines in components of Tuscany but additionally supplied warmth and drought-related challenges.
‘We are going to all lengthy bear in mind the prolonged absence of any rainfall that impacted Europe throughout spring and summer time, with temperatures properly above common in Could and June,’ Lamberto Frescobaldi, commenting on the harvest normally throughout Tuscany.
Emergency irrigation was required in some areas, however Frescobaldi added, ‘Useful rains in mid-August turned out to be the essential key to a superb-quality 2022 grape crop.’
At Calimaia, the group mentioned sand-veined illite clay soils enable vine roots to penetrate deeply and deal with water stress.
It mentioned the yr confirmed the actual qualities of Prugnolo Gentile within the space. A ‘very cautious, hands-on fermentation permits the extraction of chic, velvet-smooth tannins’, it added.
CastelGiocondo in Montalcino has seen a ‘five-star harvest’. Photograph credit score: Marchesi Frescobaldi.
Throughout the group’s different Tuscan properties, Frescobaldi mentioned CastelGiocondo in Montalcino has seen ‘a five-star harvest, yielding highly effective, richly-tannined wines that may profit from gradual, prolonged maturations in oak’.
Nonetheless, ‘the 2022 Brunello [di Montalcino] can be produced in restricted portions’, it mentioned.
