Fine
94p
94 Tb points
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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
A very exceptional event occurred in November 2012, with more than 400 mm of rain in 48 hours. This kind of event cannot refill the water reserve because most of it has no time to penetrate the soil, but it explains how tough the climate can be in the Mediterranean area with long periods of dryness and terrific storms. Fortunately, it did not cause damage in the vineyard, the soils were correctly covered with crops and porous enough to limit t...
Vuosikerta 2013
Italy’s 2013 wine vintage is widely celebrated as a landmark, classic vintage, especially in Northern and Central Italy. After the hot, quick-ripening 2011 and 2012 seasons, 2013 brought a welcome return to a cooler, traditional European climate. A late spring and long, mild summer allowed grapes to ripen slowly, leading to exceptional aromatic complexity, vibrant acidity, and firm, age-worthy tannins.
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