Anyone who knows anything about Italian wine knows that in an international context Sassicaia was the first wine to emerge, gloriously, in the early 1970s from vineyards in the Maremma, the Tuscan coast, and that it was made in the image of red bordeaux. The second wine estate to be founded there, Grattamacco, is not quite so famous. Yet it was a pioneer in so many ways: a local pioneer of organic viticulture; of the indigenous grapes Sangiovese and Vermentino; of a wine made exclusively of...
Grattamacco – a high point
Monday 15 July 2024
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The longevity and special character of wines made on Bolgheri's second-oldest estate is demonstrated.
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