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2000 Frescobaldi Pomino Rossoproduct-timed-pdf - - "Very Good" - WA

Why We're Drinking It

This unique blend of Predominantly and Pinot Noir, and a small part of is taking our Tasting Panel by the storm.

The color is an intense crimson with darker purple reflections.The bouquet is complex, with hints of vanilla which weave into fragrances of currants and other forest berries.The finish reveals pleasant notes of mint. On the palate, the 's soft and velvety texture enhances it's incredible finesse. The finish is clean, revealing perfectly balanced tannins.

Tasting Notes

VARIETAL The color is an intense crimson with darker purple reflections. Pinot Noir APPELLATION Tuscany The bouquet is complex, with hints of vanilla which weave into fragrances of ALCOHOL currants and other forest berries. 13.50 SIZE 750ml The finish reveals pleasant notes of mint. On the palate, the wine's soft and BLEND velvety texture enhances it's incredible finesse. The finish is clean, revealing Pinot Noir perfectly balanced tannins.

The Story to Know

Vision and Mission: To be innovative in the production of the highest-quality wine, highlighting the full potential of their individual terroirs and reflecting the taste and expectations of the market as well as its demands for natural and accessible .

Frescobaldi a Family of Wine Estates. Each estate is a unique expression of its local terroir. Each has its individual identity, history, and personality, but they all share a common spirit and a common goal.

Together, they represent the best Tuscany has to offer, and the values of the Frescobaldi.

700 Years Of Wine History A Florentine family with thirty generations dedicated to the production of great Tuscan wines, 5,000 hectares of estate properties, over 1,000 hectares of estate vineyards, five estates in Tuscany, and a quality distribution network in over 65 countries worldwide.

A Frescobaldi style that brings together tradition and innovation.

With the goal of being the most prestigious producer, Frescobaldi firmly believes in respecting the local land, focusing on the highest quality for its grapes, and investing in communications and in the professional calibre of its personnel. 1092:

The Frescobaldi history begins around the year 1000, when the first members of the family moved to Florence from the Val di Pesa area, more precisely from Castillione Vallis Pesae, now called Castiglioni. After settling in the Oltrarno section of the city, they built the lodge and the tower that still stand next to the building, in the Piazza de’ Frescobaldi. Some members of the family devoted themselves to banking, and immediately joined city guilds, the guild of bankers, wool merchants, and silk weavers, all of them among the “Major Guilds”; the seven most important guilds.

1300: Berto de' Frescobaldi

The family wine history begins. Berto de’ Frescobaldi bequeaths to his children his rural properties, among them “houses, mills, vineyards, orchards, farms, scattered properties.” Wine made on those properties was exported to Flanders and England, where the Frescobaldis supplied the Court on a regular basis and were also official bankers to the Court. The Frescobaldis devoted themselves to finance, to art, and to culture. Dino Frescobaldi, a poet of the Dolce Stil Novo school and a friend of Dante, returned to his fellow poet some sections of his Divine Comedy after Dante was condemned to exile from Florence. At the end of the century, Leonardo Frescobaldi visited the Holy Land.

1483: Far-off China

At the height of their splendour, between the 15th and 16th century, the Frescobaldi opened merchant banks not only in England and in Flanders but in the entire area of the Levant as well, from Constantinople to Damascus, and their numerous interests brought them as far as remote China. Among its activities, the family financed the expedition of Giovanni da , which went as far as Kerala, in the far south of the Indian peninsula. In the meantime, Castello di Nipozzano had been converted from a fortress into the family residence, it became the main rural town of the surrounding countryside, and the local wines began to flow into the already well-stocked family cellars.

1517: Henry VIII

Thanks to the commerce which the family directed, the Frescobaldi wines spread well beyond the borders of the Florentine state: the family archives still preserve some parchments containing wine orders even from Henry VIII of England.

Archival documents attest to large shipments of wine that went to the popes as well, and to celebrated artists: Donatello and his workshop, and Michelozzo Michelozzi.

1685: Francesco Redi

In the pages of his 17th-century manuscript, “Bacchus in Tuscany,” Francesco Redi limns the virtues of the wines of Pomino. Following the risqué episode of the Ballo Angelico, Bartolomeo Frescobaldi was excommunicated by Pope Clement XI: during a ball at the Villa di Montecastello the guests had danced nude. To obtain forgiveness, Bartolomeo had to go to Rome on foot. He finally won exoneration by promising that he would build 40 churches in the Val di Pesa area.

The relationship of the family with the world of culture was made even more intimate by Girolamo, who was chief organist at the Este Court in Ferrara and at the Papal Court in Rome.

1714: The wines of Pomino

The wines produced in Pomino, already mentioned by Francesco Redi in the 17th century, continued their role as industry leaders in Italy into the next century. Their claim to quality was confirmed by the Gand Duke of Tuscany, when he issued a proclamation recognising Pomino as one of the four areas in Tuscany most respected for their quality wine production. The year was 1716, fully 140 years before the birth of the Bordeaux Grand Cru Classé classification system.

1855: Vittorio degli Albizzi

Marchese Vittorio degli Albizzi, an ancestor of the Frescobaldi, was born in Burgundy in the early 19th century. When he inherited the properties in Tuscany from the Florentine branch of the family, he returned to Florence. He was amazed to find, at Pomino, an environment unique for Tuscany: a mountainous area, of conifers and chestnut trees, of vineyards and olive groves, and enjoying a well-ventilated cool climate with significant temperature differences between day and night.

Fresh from his experience in Burgundy, he was among the first in Italy to propose specialised vineyard cultivation and monovarietal plantings, even at altitudes until then not used for vinegrowing. But the conditions were perfect for early-ripening grapes such as , Pinot Bianco, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, , and Merlot, which he introduced to Pomino in 1855.

1960: The highest-quality terroirs

In the1960s, Vittorio Frescobaldi gave the company a wholly different direction. He decided to upgrade to specialised vineyards, dedicated exclusively to high-quality grape varieties, and he searched for terroirs that would produce the highest-quality fruit. As a result, over a very brief span of time Marchesi de' Frescobaldi had planted over 500 new hectares of vineyards in the province of Florence. At the same time, now one of Italy’s most prominent wine-sector leaders, Frescobaldi modernised the cellars on each of its tenute with the mission of developing the full potential of each wine estate and of ensuring ultra-premium quality for each of their wines.

1995: Luce della Vite

For the first time in Italy, two international wine producers, Marchesi de' Frescobaldi and Robert Mondavi, took the step of combining their respective resources and winemaking talents in order to develop the most perfect expression of wine, in the best vineyards in Montalcino.

Both families totally committed themselves to crafting Italian wines of extraordinary elegance and quality, displaying an unmistakably individual style and character. With this mutual goal, and sharing the same conviction that a great wine is born in the vineyard, the Frescobaldis and the Mondavis set out to locate the finest vineyards, in Tuscany’s Montalcino area, to produce Luce della Vite wines.

2000: Leaders

In every era, the Frescobaldi have succeeded in adapting, meeting and anticipating changing conditions brought by history, and succeeding in marrying experience to innovation. For over 700 years and 30 generations, commitment to agriculture and to viticulture has always figured prominently among the activities of the Frescobaldi family. In particular, from the end of the last millennium, the Frescobaldis have become leading figures in the quality development of viticulture throughout the world, assuming the role of the most prestigious wine producer in Tuscany.

Members of the new generation are taking over the heritage of their predecessors. Lamberto, Tiziana, Diana Frescobaldi e Stefano Benini are the cadre that have assumed the centuries-old family experience in order to guide the company toward new challenges. For the past has a future.

In 2000 Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi invested for the first time outside Tuscany by acquiring a majority stake in Conti Attems, the historic winery in the Collio. Attems comprises some 75 hectares, of which 49 are in estate vineyards. The Collio is one of Italy’s finest production areas for ultra-premium white wines. The Attems family, represented by Virginia Attems, continues as partner.

Ratings

"Very Good" - WA