Toscana Rosso IGT “La Danza del Fauno” 2018 – Podere Gualandi – Case of 6 bottles

The Colorino Toscana Rosso La Danza del Fauno Podere Gualandi is grown at an altitude of 300 m on alberese soil. The harvest begins with a manual weeding, the elimination of the too many gems and the shredding of the grass (the vines are grassed). A selection of the grapes is made in August and September and the grapes are harvested by hand using the traditional bigonce. The grapes are hand-pressed fermenting with all the stems for about 15 days, then the Colorino Toscana Rosso IGT “Danza del Fauno” Podere Gualandi is transferred to the barriques for about 12 months and then bottled. Barrels and barriques are continuously rolled to keep the dregs in motion. The bottling is manual.

NOTES: wine included in the “Interpretations” project.

“From the passion for history and archaeology arises the desire to produce wine inspired not only by modern ecological knowledge but also by many of the winemaking techniques present in the ancient Tuscan tradition. The soils are composed as follows: Pleistocene and alberese clay-sandy. In the vineyard, each plant produces a maximum of 900 grams of grapes and the vines are kept together with the alberello method, low spurred cordon or guyot for the old vines. For one hectare, the overall average yield does not exceed 60 quintals. of the vine they are hand-hooped and the plants are treated with Bordeaux mixture. The wine is made using the same traditional methods used in the past in large parts of Tuscany. For this reason, inside the cellars, modern technologies are almost completely banned and the materials used are the same as those that were used fifty or a hundred years ago. The fermentation of the must takes place in open truncated cones or in Italian Slavonian oak barrels. ” GUIDO GUALANDI

The art of “making wine”, Podere Gualandi use a method to intervene in the winemaking process as little as possible so that the “terroir” can express itself fully.