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Tasting articles Trinoro embraces Merlot again

8 August 2017 I have just received this report from Franchetti on this year's exceptionally dry growing season in Tuscany (friends staying on Etna have been wilting in the exceptionally...

Jancis Robinson Friday 4 August 2017 • 3 min read

Alberello Nerello vines in Graci vineyard

Inside information Etna – winemakers' honeypot

Walter Speller Monday 10 October 2016 • 7 min read

Tasting articles The Trinoro merry-go-round

Jancis Robinson Tuesday 6 January 2015

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Tenuta di Trinoro – a Tuscan eccentric

1 Jan 2015 – Happy New Year! Continuing our Throwback Thursday series, yea even on New Year's Day, we are...

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The great Etna landgrab

This article is also published in the Financial Times . See also my detailed tasting notes. Italy has no shortage...

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Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean?

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also tasting notes on...

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Etna – the tasting notes

See also my overview Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean? The nearly 60 tasting notes below were taken at...

Inside information

Andrea Franchetti to make Episode 3 in Bordeaux

You may have read about the fascinating experiment currently being conducted at Ch d’Arsac on the slightly contentious border of...

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Passopisciaro 2001 IGT Sicilia

before... ...and after. Andrea Franchetti is best known for his isolated and grandly, nay, idiosyncratically ambitious southern Tuscan propertyTenuta di...

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Musings from Tenuta di Trinoro

Andrea Franchetti sent me this account of the beginnings of this idiosyncratic southern Tuscan estate and I thought it a...

Tasting articles

Tenuta di Trinoro – a vertical of this cult wine from the beginning

For some background to this tasting, see a Tuscan eccentric. Tenuta Di Trinoro 1997 (magnum) 18.5 Drink 2002-2008 Very deep...