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Varietal:

1. Cabernet Sauvignon (from 50 to 60% depending on the vintage)
2. Alicante-Bouschet (20-30%)
3. Merlot (10-20%)

Alcohol Content: 14%

Tasting Notes:

This complex wine’s most forward notes consist of dark fruit (primarily plum and blackberry), strawberry jam, and black pepper.

Pairing Suggestions:

This is a wine whose freshness partners well with savory, classic Romance-country dishes; think rich tomato-based pastas, red meats, and delectable charcuterie boards. Buon appetito!

The Story:

We produce Monteti and Caburnio, two reds, and TM Rosé
They are both classified as IGT Toscana, to fully second the characteristics of the soil, allowing us to choose the grape varieties best suited in absolute freedom, pursuing low yields per hectare and drawing up our own vinification and ageing method, which we apply with the utmost rigour and refine year after year. While sharing a similar stylistic concept, they are different in terms of composition and maturation.

Every vintage of both wines aims to draw the best from the climatic development of the season and the response of nature. Therefore, every vintage, being built on solid foundations, has its own story to tell.Caburnio is our other, not second, wine. It is named after a spelling mistake in the transcription of a passage of the Natural History by Pliny the Elder, written between 23 and 79 AD, in which, in the illustration of winegrowing in Roman times in the province of Gallia Narbonensis, “vitis Caburnicam” appeared by mistake instead of “Narbonicam, Narbonensis”.

In the last seven years, a vine which buds in a single day and is therefore very strong, has been introduced in Alba Helvia; it is called Caburnicam and is planted today all over the province.

For 12 months, 50% matures in steel and the other 50% matures in barriques and tonneaux made of medium-toasted French oak, only 25-30% of which are new. It then spends another 12 months in the bottle before being released for sale. It is a complex yet fresh wine and it is very drinkable.

Jim Lutfy’s Thoughts:

”Textbook! Super Tuscan, intense and bright, ruby red.It has notes of strawberry jam, myrtle, wet grass, pepper, plum. Silky and lively in the mouth, it persists with juicy tannins and remarkable freshness. Best Served with Tomato Sauce pastas or savory dishes!!”

– Jim Lufty, Fine Wine Source