even ripening and balanced sugar-acid accumulation
eschewing synthetic fertilizers in favor of meticulous manual stewardship that treats each vine like a historic monument
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
Three of his single-site bottlings—Tidao
2023 Tenuta di Carleone, Il Guercio, Toscana Price_ 45.0 even ripening and balanced sugar-acidSean 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