2023 Tenuta di Trinoro Rosso Toscana - Le Cupole
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41% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Franc, 14%Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot
The second wine of one of Tuscany's great outliers, drawn from the very same high-elevation Val d'Orcia vineyards as the flagship and made with the same low yields and ruthless sorting — which is why Le Cupole has long been the smart way into Trinoro. Andrea Franchetti planted this remote corner where Tuscany meets Umbria and Lazio on virgin ground in the early 1990s, and he planted it entirely to Bordelais varieties, with Cabernet Franc leading the way, on clay-limestone and gravel that reminded him of Saint-Emilion. The vines sit between 400 and 620 metres on southwest-facing slopes, high enough that the fruit keeps its freshness and its savory edge rather than baking into jam. The 2023 is 41% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Franc, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot; the house ferments in stainless steel and ages in cement and older barriques, so the wine tastes of the place and not of new oak. Benjamin Franchetti has taken the estate on since his father's passing, and the standard hasn't slipped.
The second wine of one of Tuscany's great outliers, drawn from the very same high-elevation Val d'Orcia vineyards as the flagship and made with the same low yields and ruthless sorting — which is why Le Cupole has long been the smart way into Trinoro. Andrea Franchetti planted this remote corner where Tuscany meets Umbria and Lazio on virgin ground in the early 1990s, and he planted it entirely to Bordelais varieties, with Cabernet Franc leading the way, on clay-limestone and gravel that reminded him of Saint-Emilion. The vines sit between 400 and 620 metres on southwest-facing slopes, high enough that the fruit keeps its freshness and its savory edge rather than baking into jam. The 2023 is 41% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Franc, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot; the house ferments in stainless steel and ages in cement and older barriques, so the wine tastes of the place and not of new oak. Benjamin Franchetti has taken the estate on since his father's passing, and the standard hasn't slipped.
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