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Receiving the Wine Advocate’s highest score for Italy’s 2018s, Trinoro is one of the vintage’s great success stories. The Trinoro vineyards sit on clay-limestone outcrops in viticultural isolation in the Orcia Valley at the southern tip of Tuscany. It has proven to be the ideal spot for Andrea Franchetti’s Cabernet Franc and Merlot vines. As the vines have aged, now approaching their 30th birthday, the wine has reached extraordinary levels of complexity.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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Andrea Franchetti's 2018 Tenuta di Trinoro reminds me of the wines he made a decade ago or more. This dark, full and concentrated red blend shows a good amount of the power and the ripe, fruit-forward appeal that I associate with the wines made from those golden years from 2001 to 2007. There is a beautiful fullness and opulence here that wraps thickly over the palate with blackberry, rum cake, charred meat and black licorice. This blend of 59% Cabernet Franc and 41% Merlot offers up aromas of spice, mahogany and some of the grilled herbs or rosemary that you would associate with the Cabernet. The finish is super long and rich, with elegant tannins and lasting fruit momentum. Despite that slightly retro or nostalgic full-throttle bouquet that I described above, the mouthfeel is more tapered, fine and ethereal that you might expect. Some 7,000 bottles were made. You get all sorts of surprises from this beautiful, soulful wine.
