2021 Poderi Sanguineto I & II Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG, Tuscany, Italy Ar.Pe.Pe. allowing white grapes to maintain

allowing white grapes to maintain their vibrant freshness

2021 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Saint-Joseph Rhone

from a dry-farmed vineyard planted entirely to Tempranillo at high elevation

AGING: All three vintages 2019 was disgorged in November 2023

2021 Poderi Sanguineto I & II Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG, Tuscany, Italy Ar.Pe.Pe. allowing white grapes to maintain80% Prugnolo Gentile (local variant of Sangiovese) & 20% Canaiolo Nero & Mammolo. Prugnolo Gentile is the "noble" variant of Sangiovese found in Montepulciano and historically co planted with supporting varieties like Canaiolo and Mammolo. Proprietor Dora Forsoni has been farmiing her family vines organically forever, many of them quite old (plantings go back to 1963) and all maintained meticulously by her by hand. Soils are worked several times per