Edoardo Valentini was a unique man and wine maker who made only three types of wine. He had very firm ideas about how wine should be made and how grapes should be grown. When I visited him several years ago, he lectured me on at length on both subjects. He grew his own grapes and sold off 90% of them, keeping the best 10% for his wines. The methods he used have been mostly abandoned by modern day winemakers.
This wine is a tribute to tradition and terroir, with complex aromas. It is big, well balanced, and dense with mineral undertones and flavors of wild cherries and smoke. It has a great aftertaste and a long finish.
Edoardo’s son Francesco Paolo is the winemaker now and I am happy to say he is making the same great wines that his father did.
