Poderi Sanguineto Rosso di Montepulciano 2022

Country: Italy Region: Tuscany Type: Red Wine Grape: Prugnole Gentile (Sangiovese)/Canaiolo/Mammolo Poderi Sanguineto is the family estate of Dora Forsoni in Montepulciano, the legendary hill town of southern Tuscany. Dora and her partner Patrizia Castiglioni continue to do all the work on the farm where Dora's father taught her from generations of knowledge how to tend the old vines of true Prugnolo Gentile, Mammolo, Canaiolo, Nero Toscano and Sangiovese and how to make the wine as it has been made for generations. Prugnole Gentile is the variant of Sangiovese in and around Montepulciano and is the majority of this blend, as is traditional and required by law (70% minimum). All of the fruit is from organically farmed estate vines, many of them very old, and all of them tended carefully by Dora Forsoni on her 50-hectare family estate. Farming is organic. The grapes are hand-harvested and de-stemmed but with many whole berries remaining intact; the fermentation with native yeasts and ma