Alessandro Tofanari
2022 Alessandro Tofanari Vivaio
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$66.00
Description
WINEMAKER: Alessandro Tofanari & Simona Orsini
REGION: Tuscany, IT
VARIETY: Vernaccia
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic
Between 3 and 5 days of skin contact maceration, before fermentation. The wine is then pressed and fermented in steel, with some temperature control. Grapes for the Viviaio are from high altitude vineyards, in fact the wine has retained a lot of freshness. A savoury dry style of Vernaccia with great drinkability.
Husband and wife duo, Alessandro Tofanari and Simona Orsini, have been producing wine in the San Giminiano area of Tuscany for over two decades. They started the winery project in 2001 founding the perfect plot of land nearly 10 years earlier, but it took years of convincing the owner to sell him Podere La Castellaccia outside of the famous Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano.
From the Estruscan times in this area of Tuscany, vines were grown together with fruit orchards, were the fruit tree itself was the support for the vines. This technique, called “vigna maritata”, has gone almost forgotten until recent years. Alessandro has recently started working with a small plot planted this way. Between rows of fruit trees, which were around 10 metres wide, vegetables and grains used to be planted.
2022 Alessandro Tofanari Vivaio
$66.00
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