Pure Ambition and Liquid Gold: Tastingbook Panel Leaves Monteverro with Broad Smiles and Record Scores

The 10-member tasting panel from Tastingbook.com recently concluded a follow-up visit to the Monteverro estate in Tuscany to evaluate the winery's latest releases. This was far from the group's first pilgrimage to the property. With every consecutive visit, expectations have naturally heightened as the winery's quality trajectory continues...

In winegrowing, sometimes what is necessary is also just instinct. One day, Georg Weber stood at the foot of the medieval town of Capalbio in a landscape still characterized by grain fields. He looked over the slopes that gently drop to the Tyrrhenian Sea, felt the mild breeze that blew in from the water, and breathed the scent of the Mediterranean scrub, of the prolific herbs and flowers. That is when he knew: ‘‘this coast has incredible pote...

A good wine comes not from the winery, but rather from the vineyard — we are convinced of that. Because to the greatest extent possible, we want to let nature run its course. We place great value upon biodiversity and made a conscious decision against monoculture. Out of the sixty hectares (150 acres) that Monteverro comprises, only thirty-five of them are planted with grapevines (of which only around twenty-seven are in production). The remai...

In our winery, sustainable activities, a great deal of work by hand, and innovative technology all complement each other. The overriding maxim is to intervene as little as possible in the natural fermentation and maturation so that the wine can develop to a large extent undisturbed. 

Because conditions can change in the vineyard just within a few meters, for harvesting we subdivide each plot into microplots which are then picked at differen...