The Story
The first vintage of the Guado al Tasso Vermentino was the 1996. This estate is located approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Florence in the Tuscan Maremma, just outside the medieval village of Bolgheri, and the 1000 hectares (2471 acres) of the property extend from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the hills in the interior. In addition to the major crop to be cultivated, wine grapes, there are also olive groves and field of wheat, corn, a...
Wine Information
A winter with normal temperatures was followed by a spring initially marked by above average temperatures which led to an early bud break. A regular spring and early summer - the latter characterized, up until the beginning of August, by somewhat cool temperatures and occasional rainfall - favored an extended ripening cycle free of any vine stress. The high temperatures of the month of August, though slightly mitigated by the influence of the ...
