Il Caberlot Toscana IGT 2014

The Podere Il Carnasciale winery is located in the southern part of the Chianti mountains, in the Valdarno area, near Siena and Arezzo, sixty kilometers south of Florence. This small estate was created by Wolf and Bettina Rogoski. Today it is managed by Bettina and her son Moritz, in collaboration with enologist Peter Schilling. In 1985, after severe frosts destroyed the family's magnificent olive groves, Wolf decided to cultivate a rare grape clone - Caberlo, which is a natural hybrid of Cabernet and Merlot. Thus, in 1986, the first vineyard of the estate was established, occupying only 0.3 hectares on rocky soil where olive trees had been grown for over a hundred years. In 1999 and 2004, two additional plots were planted. As a result, the total vineyard area reached 2.1 hectares. Today, the Caberlo grape is grown only at this estate. Vineyard work is done manually, with minimal intervention, without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and all sanitary procedures are natural. Podere Il Carnasciale produces only two wines - the unique, magnificent "Il Caberlo", which is bottled only in magnum bottles of 1.5 liters (no more than 3300 magnums per year) and the second wine "Carnasciale", which is a fine example of a "younger brother" made with the same care as the flagship wine.