2017 Valgiano Colline Lucchesi Rosso

Tenuta di Valgiano is the gateway to a different Tuscany. The manicured estates of Montalcino seem a world away; here in the hills above the city of Lucca, dense forests hide weather-worn villas and older-vine vineyards, with climbing herbs winding round “palistorti,” crooked stakes that mark each vine row.

Moreno Petrini and Laura di Collobiano makes true “terroir” wines – wines that once you taste them, inspire a feeling that you are being spoken to in a new language. Biodynamics is the core of this new tongue, a rhythm to which everything moves at the estate: the vineyards and olive trees, the bees and chickens.