2016 Tenuta San Leonardo Carmenere Sonoma Valley Excellent with creamed or truffle

Excellent with creamed or truffle risotto

but the year's weather conditions allowed us to work at a less feverish pace and perform a more careful selection of the grapes and winemaking process and a more cautious choice of vinification strategies

very subtle

the assemblage spends another two more months in concrete vats

2016 Tenuta San Leonardo Carmenere Sonoma Valley Excellent with creamed or truffleIGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti Blend Carmenre History The Carmenre from San Leonardo is surely the oldest grape variety cultivated on the estate. It was introduced thanks to Oddone de Grestis passion for international varieties, who planted it at the end of the 19th century. For years, it was mistaken for Cabernet Franc, until Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, in the late 1980s, planted new Cabernet Franc vines for comparison and realized he had this