Instead of the indigenous Carricante, which grows on the eastern side of the volcano, Passobianco is made of 100% Chardonnay. When Franchetti arrived on.
Vini Franchetti - Petit Sancaba Pinot Nero 2022 (750ml) available at Arlington Wine & Liquor in Poughkeepsie, NY
A rich and generous vintage that offered abundance to the vines during the entire vegetative cycle. Rainfall was abundant during winter and spring time and.
Cherries, cranberries, a little vanilla and old leather make for a rich and luxurious if restrained nose on the 2020 Passopisciaro from Contrada Porcaria.
Fine and silky, this supple red offers a lightly mouthwatering range of steeped raspberry, ripe black plum and Early Grey tea flavors, which are accented.
An appealing nose of cured tobacco and spice leads to bright flavors of wild cherry, pomegranate and iron in this tightly-meshed, medium-bodied red. Chalky.
Violet and spice box notes waft from the glass of this round, lightly chewy red, with a fragrant skein winding through flavors of crushed cherry and strawberry.
A supple red, seamlessly layering sculpted tannins with a lovely range of baked black raspberry, woodsy spice, Earl Grey tea leaf and loamy earth flavors.
Passopisciaro (Franchetti) Terre Siciliane Franchetti 2018 | Other Red Blends from Sicily, Italy
Franchetti Rosso 2016 (750ml) available at Middletown Bottle King in Middletown, NJ
2013 was a cooler vintage, serene with little rain. Temperatures in the valley during the summer in the valley averaged 26°C instead of the usual 36°C.
I never met Andrea Franchetti, who died in December 2021 at the age of 72. But this wine sums up everything I've read and heard from his partners at.
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