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

and tobacco

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

The result is as honest as it gets

eschewing synthetic fertilizers in favor of meticulous manual stewardship that treats each vine like a historic monument

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