Tenuta San Guido Guidalberto 2023 Grape_Trousseau heat-stressed crop

heat-stressed crop

which López de Heredia has farmed since 1913

The finish is long and persistent

planted one-quarter to Chardonnay at the upper section of the parcel — the highest elevation ground

Tenuta San Guido Guidalberto 2023 Grape_Trousseau heat-stressed cropThe Land Bolgheri sits on the Tuscan coast between Livorno and Grosseto, a natural amphitheater of low hills opening west to the Tyrrhenian. Tenuta San Guido runs more than fifteen kilometers inland from the shore, across elevations from 80 to 400 meters. The soils are a patchwork rather than a type: gravelly alluvial material washed down from the Colline Metallifere behind, marine clay, limestone, and sand left from when the sea covered the plain. A