Inside Agricola Azienda Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera
If you've spent any period looking at top-tier Italian language wine, you've definitely heard about Agricola Azienda Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera , the name that bears a sort of mythical excess weight in the world of Sangiovese. It's not just a winery; it's more like a philosophy bottled up and sold to these lucky enough to discover a bottle. Gianfranco Soldera wasn't your standard winemaker who grew up treading grapes in the grandfather's cellar. This individual was an outsider, an insurance broker from Milan which made a decision to take the gamble on an area of land in Montalcino in the early 1970s. What he or she built there didn't just change the local wine scene; this basically set a new, incredibly higher bar for exactly what "natural" winemaking can actually achieve when paired with obsessive precision. ...