Podere Il Carnasciale

Until 2005, one Tuscan wine tionary 10,000 vines per hectare, and to prune to a mere five clusters per plant. As if to presage Il Caberlot’s future, the Rogoskys buried a bottle of Sassicaia under the first vine.

From the first vintage, 1988, Il Caberlot has been a huge cult wine in Europe, its scarcity driven by nature and the vineyard’s size of less than an acre. Wolf Rogosky passed away in 1996, but Bettina has carried on the work with h...

Four parcels of vines totaling 3 hA. The original site (0.3 hA) is located at 430m elevation, while three younger vineyards (0.7, 1.0 and 0,9 hA) are planted between 200m and 250m. Vine spacing is a revolutionary (for Tuscany) 10,000 vines per hectare. A new plot was planted in 2013.

Soils: The original site is iron-rich clay, while the three newer sites lie on a combination of chalky clay, sand and rock.

Zone: The estate is located at t...

All treatments in the vineyard are natural and follow the principles of organic farming. All work in the cellar is manual and minimally- invasive. Grapes are hand-picked and destemmed before undergoing a fermentation and maceration of 8-10 days. The wines are aged in barriques and fûts from Burgundy, 60% new, over a period of 22months prior to bottling by hand. No filtration is employed. Il Caberlotmatures 16 additional months in bottle before...

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Antonio Galloni in The Wine Advocate