2013 Friorano Bianco & 2013 Fiorano Rosso, Tenuta di Friorano, - Lazio - 2 Bottles (0.73L)
No. 89735123
Don't miss your chance to win two very rare wines from vintages no longer available on the market.
The Tenuta di Fiorano with its wines, the Fiorano Rosso and the Fiorano Bianco, and its history so rich in innovative ideas and some mystery located in via di Fioranello n. 19-31 close to the Appia Antica, also near the Ciampino airport, is owned by Prince Alessandrojacopo Boncompagni Ludovisi.
The fame of the Tenuta di Fiorano is also linked to the figure of Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, a character that time has enveloped in a deserved legend. Between the 40s and 50s of the last century Alberico became passionate about wine production and chose, a pioneer in Italy, to plant cabernet sauvignon and merlot, malvasia di Candia and an unknown, for the time, sémillon.
Between his friendship with Tancredi Biondi Santi and Veronelli, anecdotes and mysteries - such as the inviolable cellar - and his reserved nature, Alberico continued to produce wines until 1998 when he uprooted almost all of the vineyard without giving any explanations, with an exit worthy of the fame he had built up over the years.
Among the very few people who loved to spend time with Alberico in those years, there were his cousin Paolo Boncompagni Ludovisi and his son Alessandrojacopo, already owners of a part of the Estate in the area that includes the small church of Santa Fresca and the nearby Villa. Paolo and Alessandro began to take care of the Estate, always guided by Alberico who, in the meantime, had retired to Rome due to health problems and followed the management from there.
Between 1999 and 2004 Alessandro purchased another 13 hectares of land near the initial nucleus. Together with his father, he planted an experimental vineyard in front of the Villa di Santa Fresca and then, always under the supervision of Alberico who gave him the rights to replant it, he set up a new vineyard that had to follow the one previously uprooted.
Alessandro, then just over twenty years old and not very experienced, but with great passion, was guided by Alberico in choosing the land, the clones and the vineyard planting, all always organically managed, up to the winemaking operations, the same ones that continue today both in the processing method and in the use of workers including Gianni Valenti, the historical memory.
Even today, after the manual harvest, the grapes are pressed by hand, the winemaking takes place in the Old Cellar, and then the wine, by gravity, arrives at the Historic Cellar where it continues with the refinement in the old barrels and the long rest in the bottle. Alberico applied his past experience in everything but when it came to choosing the vines for the white wines, his elderly cousin, without giving any explanations, imposed the use of other clones, Grechetto and Viognier, and did not want to hear about Sémillon anymore.
Alberico was succeeded by Alessandrojacopo who today is at the helm of the Estate of about 200 hectares of land including vineyards, olive groves, arable land and pastures. And above all that Historic Cellar with the wines that it jealously preserves inside that Alberico had visit a very few lucky people, including Veronelli, and that Alessandrojacopo, out of respect, continues to keep protected today.
All wines come from a temperature-controlled cellar.
Bottles of first origin, never traveled.
I do not ship outside of Europe.
Don't miss your chance to win two very rare wines from vintages no longer available on the market.
The Tenuta di Fiorano with its wines, the Fiorano Rosso and the Fiorano Bianco, and its history so rich in innovative ideas and some mystery located in via di Fioranello n. 19-31 close to the Appia Antica, also near the Ciampino airport, is owned by Prince Alessandrojacopo Boncompagni Ludovisi.
The fame of the Tenuta di Fiorano is also linked to the figure of Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, a character that time has enveloped in a deserved legend. Between the 40s and 50s of the last century Alberico became passionate about wine production and chose, a pioneer in Italy, to plant cabernet sauvignon and merlot, malvasia di Candia and an unknown, for the time, sémillon.
Between his friendship with Tancredi Biondi Santi and Veronelli, anecdotes and mysteries - such as the inviolable cellar - and his reserved nature, Alberico continued to produce wines until 1998 when he uprooted almost all of the vineyard without giving any explanations, with an exit worthy of the fame he had built up over the years.
Among the very few people who loved to spend time with Alberico in those years, there were his cousin Paolo Boncompagni Ludovisi and his son Alessandrojacopo, already owners of a part of the Estate in the area that includes the small church of Santa Fresca and the nearby Villa. Paolo and Alessandro began to take care of the Estate, always guided by Alberico who, in the meantime, had retired to Rome due to health problems and followed the management from there.
Between 1999 and 2004 Alessandro purchased another 13 hectares of land near the initial nucleus. Together with his father, he planted an experimental vineyard in front of the Villa di Santa Fresca and then, always under the supervision of Alberico who gave him the rights to replant it, he set up a new vineyard that had to follow the one previously uprooted.
Alessandro, then just over twenty years old and not very experienced, but with great passion, was guided by Alberico in choosing the land, the clones and the vineyard planting, all always organically managed, up to the winemaking operations, the same ones that continue today both in the processing method and in the use of workers including Gianni Valenti, the historical memory.
Even today, after the manual harvest, the grapes are pressed by hand, the winemaking takes place in the Old Cellar, and then the wine, by gravity, arrives at the Historic Cellar where it continues with the refinement in the old barrels and the long rest in the bottle. Alberico applied his past experience in everything but when it came to choosing the vines for the white wines, his elderly cousin, without giving any explanations, imposed the use of other clones, Grechetto and Viognier, and did not want to hear about Sémillon anymore.
Alberico was succeeded by Alessandrojacopo who today is at the helm of the Estate of about 200 hectares of land including vineyards, olive groves, arable land and pastures. And above all that Historic Cellar with the wines that it jealously preserves inside that Alberico had visit a very few lucky people, including Veronelli, and that Alessandrojacopo, out of respect, continues to keep protected today.
All wines come from a temperature-controlled cellar.
Bottles of first origin, never traveled.
I do not ship outside of Europe.