Salcheto Nobile 2020

Grape: Sangiovese

Region: Montepulciano, Italy

Farming: Sustainable

The Salcheto winery covers 21 hectares of hilly Tuscan land and it surrounds the Salcheto stream that runs through the heart of Tuscany’s Montepulciano town. The first estate in Italy to be fully self-sustainable, Salcheto reflects the epitome of environmental efficiency – and, unsurprisingly, its wines embody a similar ethos of innovation and natural process. Thirty years on from its founding, and almost twenty-five since its takeover by Michele Manelli in 1997, the Salcheto winery can today be considered an eco-pioneer in the wine world. Salcheto’s winery is dedicated to a clone of the Sangiovese grape that provides the soul of the renowned Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Prugnolo Gentile. Prugnolo Gentile offers a heightening of softer, plum-like flavours, in place of Sangiovese’s usual red and black cherry notes. It gives us, perhaps, a mid-point between a bold and robust Brunello and an elegant Chianti.