Folavento 2022
Folavento
Folavento
Plummy roasted aromas with tobacco and forest floor.
In the glass, the 2022 Folavento presents a pale straw yellow with greenish reflections. The color appears clear and vibrant, with fresh brilliance. Overall, it gives a youthful, precise impression that signals lightness while also revealing substance and clean craftsmanship.
We can smell elderberry and plum. Roasted aromas are added and are complemented by leather, Mediterranean herbs and a pinch of black pepper. Dark berries meet coffee, dark chocolate and tobacco. A firework of aromas that also includes forest floor, spices and dried fruit.
In the mouth, Folavento is a cleanly structured wine. The tannin is strong and sweeps you along. The finish is long with a great finale. The delicate acid structure gives the wine a refreshing kick. The tannin power moves across the tongue like a gentle giant and shines through a beautiful minerality in the finale. Very rich in extract and exciting.
The grapes come from higher-altitude Douro vineyards with a cooler microclimate. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, deliberately without wood. This keeps the focus on freshness, varietal character, and origin. A modern Douro style, precise, unadulterated, and clearly defined.
Mother and daughter grow biodynamic wines in the beautiful Maremma Tuscany.
It was 1970 when the Puntscher family took over the Tenuta del Fontino winery in the Tuscan Maremma (near the sea). An integral part of the land was not only the 15 hectares of vineyards, but also a further 735 hectares of forest, meadows, olive groves, accommodation and production buildings and a private bathing lake of considerable size.
Mother and daughter Puntscher rule over these lands and engage in tourism and fabulous winemaking. The barren vineyards produce charismatic wine with a lot of character.
In 2016, the conversion to a biodynamic and Demeter-certified winery was initiated. Since 2020, only biodynamic wine has been produced. As consulting oenologists, Eva Volpi and Andrea di Maio are heavily involved in the creation of the characterful wines - the microphone of the terroir. Spontaneously fermented wines are bottled unfiltered and sing their moving song of the beauty and richness of the landscape. The wines are a reflection of what happens in the vineyard during the year.
In addition to winemaking, the focus of the Toskana-Frauenpower team is on simple and elegant hospitality, which not only meets the highest standards in accommodation and wine, but also excels in culinary terms. The close connection with the surrounding nature, the lush lands, the bathing lake are the absolute highlight of a stay in the microcosm of Tenuta del Fontino in the Tuscan Maremma.
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Folavento
2022
Plummy roasted aromas with tobacco and forest floor.
In the glass, the 2022 Folavento presents a pale straw yellow with greenish reflections. The color appears clear and vibrant, with fresh brilliance. Overall, it gives a youthful, precise impression that signals lightness while also revealing substance and clean craftsmanship.
We can smell elderberry and plum. Roasted aromas are added and are complemented by leather, Mediterranean herbs and a pinch of black pepper. Dark berries meet coffee, dark chocolate and tobacco. A firework of aromas that also includes forest floor, spices and dried fruit.
In the mouth, Folavento is a cleanly structured wine. The tannin is strong and sweeps you along. The finish is long with a great finale. The delicate acid structure gives the wine a refreshing kick. The tannin power moves across the tongue like a gentle giant and shines through a beautiful minerality in the finale. Very rich in extract and exciting.
The grapes come from higher-altitude Douro vineyards with a cooler microclimate. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, deliberately without wood. This keeps the focus on freshness, varietal character, and origin. A modern Douro style, precise, unadulterated, and clearly defined.