The beautifully garnet ’13 Cannonau Tenores bursts with brambly berries and juicy cherries that layer with Mediterranean scrub, warm saddle leather, pressed wild herbs, cigar wrapper, baking spices and blood orange zest. This thrilling, complex wine seamlessly weaves together its sweet fruits, bright acidity, chewy tannins, sauvage elements and full-throttle power to create an elegant, compelling drink. Big as this wine is, this Cannonau holds its focus; drinkable now, it’ll age wonderfully for years, even decades. Organically grown Cannonau grapes from 80-year-old vines in the estate’s seven-acre stony, calcium-rich Tenores vineyard ferment on the skins with only natural yeasts for about ten days; the wine ages for about five years in cement tanks before bottling, unfiltered and unfined.
- Country: Italy
- Region: Sardegna
- Sub Region/Classification: Romangia Rosso IGT
Whatever else you might call the wines of Tenute Dettori--magical, long-aging, complex, and dancing with life come to mind--one thing you can say about them is that they are unique. Hailing from calcium-rich vineyards in sea-swept Sardegna, Tenute Dettori’s wines are already unusual, but the uncompromising work of owner-winemaker Alessandro Dettori sets them even further apart. Committed to indigenous grapes, relying on organic agriculture, employing traditional viniculture, and crafting wines that are site specific, Tenute Dettori is a natural wine trailblazer, and while Dettori could label its wines DOC, the estate chooses not to, employing the phrase “Romangia IGT” instead. This labeling, Alessandro says, puts the emphasis on his estate’s singular terroir, which spans 80 acres in an elevated natural amphitheater in Badde Nigosolu. Indeed, Dettori is so dedicated to its terroir that it bottles three separate Cannonau cru wines in order to highlight the subtle differences. Wild, natural, lively and delicious, Tentue Dettori wines need to be drunk--and then enjoyed again and again--to be believed.
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