Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2000 vs Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018 currently starts £2.80 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £164.00 | £161.20 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Tenuta San Leonardo | Terroir Al Limit |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon | Grenache, Garnacha |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2000
“ …one of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers separated in childhood. ” Wine Advocate, December 2014 “ Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy ” Jancis Robinson, August 2012 The wines are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and (says leading Italian critic Nicolas Belfrage) ‘ can have an elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world‘ . San Leonardo’s owner Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, a rare example (at the time) of a professionally-trained aristocrat-oenologist, spent time at Tenuta San Guido back in the 1960s and subsequently employed the same legendary consultant, Giacomo Tachis, as Sassicaia for a time. San Leonardo’s outstanding Bordeaux blend has received ‘Tre Bicchiere’ from Gambero Rosso for an extraordinary thirteen vintages consecutively and was also numbered among the Guide’s ‘Fifty Wines which changed Italy’. "One of my personal favourite Italian wines, unquestionably the top winery in the region and renowned as one of the most consistent – stylistically and qualitatively – in the whole of Italy, YET its wines remain extremely well-priced by comparison to more widely publicised names." Tom Harrow, Honest Grapes Wine Director
Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018
Nothing ever compares with your first love. Especially when that love began through fate, a stolen glimpse through the trees. Might it have been destiny that steered Dominik Huber and his motorbike through the twisting and mountainous dirt roads to the tiny, 2-ha Les Tosses plot? At 600 meters of elevation, this grand cru vineyard is not only the highest in the Torroja del Priorat village, but also the first (2003) in the Terroir Al Limit collection. It is the Matterhorn of winemaking, a challenge that must be attempted simply because it is there: 80-year-old Carignan vines, steep black slate slopes, blazing southwestern exposition. It was also love at first sight. Inspired by a cellar approach from the far-flung cool and fog-laden Burgundy hills, this wine is hand harvested, with whole cluster native fermentation, skin-kissed for two weeks, and then aged for 16 months in 1200l Stockinger fuder for 16 months. Less extraction, lower alcohol than Priorat's old guard, whole-bunch fermentation: the result is a wine of real tension and mineral definition.
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