This grape variety is grown in Northern Italy and very little elsewhere. It has washed down many a spaghetti Bolognese in the guise of ‘Chanti.’ Much of the time it is quaffable with food, slightly acidic in constitution, and a little deficient in tannin all of which appears to be due to the fact that the vine can be overgenerous in its yields. In consequence the wine is often light and undistinguished.

Here is a wine to buck the trend. It is full flavoured, generously tannic and savoury with a warm and generous embrace. It gets to be this way when you grow it on a wide open trellis in a dry climate, resist the temptation to water it, drop half the fruit on the ground, exclude the rot as you harvest it by hand and give it serious attention in the cellar so as to convince Cinderella that she can indeed carry off the role of a Princess. Prince Charming is the French Oak.

Please note this vintage is sold out.