Montevertine, Toscana Rosso IGT, 2015 so090624 geek roundup offer Domaine Gautheron’s Chablis 1er Cru

Domaine Gautheron’s Chablis 1er Cru Les Forneaux comes from prized southeast-facing slopes on classic Kimmeridgian limestone

native grape varieties

noble tannins and lifted acidity

but there’s enough backbone to make it more than just easy drinking

and precise

Montevertine, Toscana Rosso IGT, 2015 so090624 geek roundup offer Domaine Gautheron’s Chablis 1er CruA glorious expression of Radda terroir, now entering its drinking window. Sergio Manetti founded Montevertine in 1967 in Radda in Chianti and famously walked away from the Chianti Classico consortium in the early 1980s, choosing to bottle his wines as Toscana IGT instead. His son Martino runs the estate today. This is the eponymous 'Montevertine' bottling, the estate's namesake mid tier wine (the top cuve being Le Pergole Torte): roughly 90%