2023 Tenuta di Carleone, Il Guercio, Toscana Price_ 45.0 defined by a fierce commitment

defined by a fierce commitment to estate-bottling their own fruit rather than selling it to the large commercial houses

even ripening and balanced sugar-acid accumulation

instead relying on the interplay between the site’s iron-rich geology and Gahier’s minimalist intervention to produce a light-bodied red with focused density

We've happily consumed more bottles from Lapierre over the years than just about any other producer in the region

the fractured clay-schist soil that helps with drainage in warm years

2023 Tenuta di Carleone, Il Guercio, Toscana Price_ 45.0 defined by a fierce commitmentSean O'Callaghan has a conviction that Sangiovese at altitude can produce something closer to Burgundy than to the big and extracted wines the market spent decades chasing. Il Guercio is the fullest expression of that thinking. The fruit comes from a single terraced vineyard in Gaiole, near Lamole, farmed organically and biodynamically at roughly 650 meters, some of the highest ground in Chianti Classico. Old vines, late harvest, foot stomped and