Tenuta La Viola Romagna Rosso Oddone 2024 Vintage:2024 A vanishingly rare grape native

A vanishingly rare grape native to Piedmont is making some interesting noise around town

on river-born soils rich in granite and quartz pebbles

"The 2019 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Vigneto San Marcellino is a dark

rather than the way those other wines seem to come with ground up peppercorns inside

the family did not sell

Tenuta La Viola Romagna Rosso Oddone 2024 Vintage:2024 A vanishingly rare grape nativeIn the hills of Bertinoro, the Gabellini family makes Sangiovese. This is not Chianti, which has always made these red wines something of a challenge to sell, but if Romagna is going to make Sangiovese this good, maybe its time to change that. The terroir here is a complex mix of Italys signature clay limestone marl with sediments brought by the nearby Po river over millenia. The Adriatic sea is about a half hour away by car, but the plain below is so