tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789758153770792359.post4340723271390690148..comments2023-07-01T05:12:00.395-04:00Comments on Fringe Wine: Pugnitello - Tuscany, ItalyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842826321707777829noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789758153770792359.post-72713624453627415102013-04-25T14:35:59.895-04:002013-04-25T14:35:59.895-04:00Santa Vittoria's has a lovely 'hands off&#...Santa Vittoria's has a lovely 'hands off' sort of feel, I find it a little Hermitage like and there's an interesting rosato too from the young vines. (I import the red into the UK www.batwine.co.uk) Le Buche are pretty serious about their Prugnitello, too serious, too concentrated for me but there you go. Batwinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790573381609178757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789758153770792359.post-192450612297436692012-11-09T18:22:48.350-05:002012-11-09T18:22:48.350-05:00Yesterday I was fortunate enough to taste with Le...Yesterday I was fortunate enough to taste with Leonardo Bellaccini of San Felice here at my restaurant in London, and after his 'normal' wines from Chianti & Montalcino, we tasted all 3 of the Pugnitello wines in current production:<br />Matervitis from the Maremma- 60/40 Pugnitello/Ciliegiolo; Arkeos from Montalcino- 60/40 Pugnitello/Sangiovese; Pugnitello 100% Pugnitello.<br />What a revelation they are-and what an amazing project. These are wonderful wines, worth seeking out, and worth cellaring too!Martin P Lamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11907716809082374420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789758153770792359.post-25344533805073387612012-10-15T23:40:40.497-04:002012-10-15T23:40:40.497-04:00Frequent reader of your blog, love it. As a buyer ...Frequent reader of your blog, love it. As a buyer for a boutique store I'm always looking for funky wines. Actually used your research to dispell some information a salesman was claiming about charbonno.<br /><br />Anyways, you mentioned you're looking for a 100% Canaiolo wine. Well you're in luck, Castelvecchio makes a very nice one called Numero 8. I unfortunately do not carry it, little out of my customers' range and only so many facings to take a chance with it yet. But make some calls, one of the good italian wine shops in MA is bound to have it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789758153770792359.post-69615884611841036412012-08-17T09:59:35.310-04:002012-08-17T09:59:35.310-04:00Nice post and interesting blog! I want to add some...Nice post and interesting blog! I want to add something about Pugnitello.<br /><br />I believe that Pugnitello will become the most prized red grape variety in Tuscany and probably that's the vine that will be behind the great future new Tuscan wines. I tasted the Leopoldo 2009 (100% Pugnitello) made by Fattoria Santa Vittoria in Foiano della Chiana. The Leopoldo is close in style to its tuscan counterparts, but with a distinctive Northwest fruitiness. It's closest to the great Bourgogne Rouge Wine than to Brunello. When I tried Santa Vittoria Leopoldo I thought they made a wine that it was very true to Pugnitello varietal character and flavor. Wine writers and winemakers often talk about balance in a wine and how desirable it is to have such elements as fruit flavours, tannin, oakiness, sweetness and alcohol humming along in seeming unison, not dominating each other. This, they argue, leads to greater enjoyment and more complex wines. I think that in Leopoldo Santa Vittoria farmer find the right way to preserve the Pugnitello personality.<br />Find below more details about it. Moreover I want to suggest you to check Santa Vittoria "Conforta"(Semillon, GewurtzT., Manzoni White cross) a Tuscan version of northern late harvest it's absolutely unusual in Valdichiana. It's got a special commended at Vinitaly in 2010.<br />Fore more info fattoriasantavittoria.com<br /><br />More comment about Pugnitello<br />Pugnitello an ancient Tuscan grape with a great future. Pugnitello is an indigenous or authoctonous grape variety from Tuscany, Italy. In ancient times, the Etruscans were the inhabitants of this area, before they were overrun by the Romans a couple of centuries BC. They were early cultivars of the vine – though they usually let the vines climb along trees in trails the vines set themselves. In recent years, scientists, winemakers and vignerons have been concerned by the attrition of grape vine varieties – in what they call the “genetic erosion” of Vitis vinifera – due to, among other reasons, the phylloxera blight and selection of specific varieties to the exclusion of others. In response to this, the University of Florence in conjunction with the some Farm and winery sought to rediscover and cultivate authoctonous vines. In what has been a mammoth project, all the existing vines in Tuscany have been attempted to be represented. These have been verified genetically as distinct varieties, and in all, about 230 were grafted on rootstocks and cultivated. Of these, only about 30 bore grapes suitable for wine (by a process called “microvinification”, simply meaning small quantities of wine were produced from each plant).<br />Pugnitello vinification<br /><br />Leopoldo 2009<br />Alcool : 14,5% <br />Acidity : 5 – 5,3 gl <br />Ph : 3,5 – 3,65 <br />Ext : 33 – 35 grAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01825080625722972940noreply@blogger.com