Fine
93p
94 Tb points
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Wine Description
The Story
Planted in the heat-soaked expanse of the Tuscan Maremma, Chardonnay ought to fail. The Mediterranean summer is too unrelenting, the sun too fierce. Yet Georg Weber made a calculated wager—fueled not by obligation, but by a lifelong reverence for the complex, place-reflective texture of great white Burgundy. Against the odds, his bet succeeds in Capalbio. Tucked just five kilometers from the Tyrrhenian Sea on clay-limestone soils strewn with e...
Wine Information
2011 began with a very rainy winter which filled up the water reserve before the beginning of the season. The spring was warmer than average and budbreak and flowering were about a week earlier than in 2010. These conditions had a very positive impact on the quality of the vintage as it resulted in a very even grape development. Summer was a bit cooler and two rains of 25 mm (July 5 and July 27) helped the veraison and the beginning of the mat...
