Tenuta di Carleone TENUTA DI CARLEONE Randagio 2021

Description

Tenuta Carleone Randagio 2021 is yet another twist by Sean O’Callaghan. Il Randagio is a 50% Cabernet Franc and 50% Merlot vinified in “Guercio style”: grapes pressed delicately with the feet and very long maceration for about 18 months in steel and cement. All fantasy and drinking, for what is affectionately called “Il Guercino”.

The Tenuta di Carlone is located on a sunny and gentle slope of Radda in Chianti. The estate extends over 100 hectares of land including woods, olive groves, and 20 hectares of Sangiovese vineyards, some over 60 years old. The vinification is traditional and artisanal, with long macerations, fermentations with indigenous yeasts and the use of whole bunches in concrete and oak vats, old and new. The people behind this estate are Austrian entrepreneur Karl Egger and his friend Sean O’Callaghan, aka One Eye. A non-interventionist winemaking approach is adopted, with no commercial yeasts and no fining agents. Both biological and biodynamic principles are used in the vineyards.