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Tenuta Fanti Vin Santo 2011
Tuscany, ItalyVin Santo is an exceptional, historical, and long-lived wine. Fanti continues the tradition with this special sweet. This is a blend of 40% Trebbiano Toscano, 40% Malvasia Toscana, and 20% San Colombano, from 30-year-old vines. The whole bunches are hung in a ventilated drying room for 4-6 months, desiccate, and the sugars and acids concentrate. They are then pressed gently into small oak barrels called caratelli, filled 2/3 full, and sealed with cement for a long, slow ferment and 5 years' ageing. Once cracked open and transferred to the bottle, they remain for 6 months before release. With such a labour-intensive and low-yielding process, only 1200 375ml bottles are produced each vintage. Pouring a rich golden brown hue, this intense, sweet, syrupy wine is dense with maple, butterscotch, burnished caramel, pipe tobacco, dried apricot, roasted hazelnuts, brown butter, and caramelized orange peel. As sweet as this wine is, there is a beam of acidity to counter. Multilayered, very complex, this lingers far after the last sip. This contemplative wine is best-enjoyed solo.Tasted: 03 November 2020Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| ON | $62.95 | 375ml | consignment |
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Blend: Trebbiano Toscano - Malvasia Toscana - San Colombano,
