Le Potazzine Sangiovese IGT Toscana Trocken Subtle earth and tea leaf

Subtle earth and tea leaf notes emerge toward the finish

just when it was beginning to reemerge as a wine of significant notes

Chemistry was already darn good stuff

So tonight

So just today it was a huge shock when one of Calera's single vineyard Pinots rolled into the Farwell store

Le Potazzine Sangiovese IGT Toscana Trocken Subtle earth and tea leafIt feels a little subversive to call this wine a Rosso. It drinks more like a young Brunello, already hinting at the architecture it will one day fully reveal. Drawn from Brunello designated vines and shaped by that striking duality of placehigh, wind cooled slopes near the winery and the warmer, alluvial breadth of SantAngelo in Collethe wine opens with lifted aromatics: tart cherry, wild strawberry and blood orange peel, laced with rose petal, iron