Campo alle Comete Torre alle Comete Bolgheri

Campo alle Comete Torre alle Comete Bolgheri 2021

£67.25

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Key info
CountryItaly
RegionBolgheri
GrapeCabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon
TypeRed
Vintage2021
Alcohol14.5% ABV
BodyFull
SweetnessDry
Age-worthyElegantRichSpiced
Pairs with — beef & red meat, game, hard cheese, lamb

The wine

A beautifully balanced blend where delicate spice and classic Bolgheri balsamic notes are underpinned by rich flavours of plum and black fruit. Smooth and elegant, and the most serious wine the estate makes.

The estate's flagship, from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc and given serious oak ageing. Cabernet Franc does exceptionally well at Bolgheri: it ripens earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon and contributes perfume, graphite and fine tannin, and several of the zone's best wines lean heavily on it.

The producer

Campo alle Comete

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Campo alle Comete lies at Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast, the appellation that changed Italian wine. The name means field of the comets, after the meteor showers visible over the Tyrrhenian on clear summer nights.

Bolgheri was pasture and marsh until the 1940s, when Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted Cabernet Sauvignon at Tenuta San Guido because the gravelly soil reminded him of Graves. The wine became Sassicaia, and because Cabernet had no place in Tuscan appellation law it was sold as humble vino da tavola for decades. Its success created the Supertuscan category and eventually forced the law to change; Bolgheri received its own DOC in 1994.

The zone is warm, maritime and flat by Tuscan standards, sheltered by hills to the east and cooled by sea breezes, which is why Bordeaux varieties ripen fully here when they struggle inland. Cabernet Franc in particular does exceptionally well.

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