Giovanna Morganti's flagship "Le Trame" carried a Chianti Classico label until 2012, when she tired of the bureaucracy and walked, and the wine has been a Toscana Rosso ever since. Same vineyard, same head-trained, densely planted Sangiovese, fewer forms to fill out. The old indigenous field blend is still in there in splashes: Colorino, Mammolo, Foglia Tonda, Ciliegiolo, threaded through a wine with fine-grained tannin and real savory grip on the mid-palate. Sometimes leaving the appellation is the most Tuscan thing you can do.
Winemaker Notes
Giovanna’s flagship wine “Le Trame”—formerly classified as Chianti Classico but proudly a Toscana Rosso since she wearied of the red tape and exited the appellation in 2012—comprises almost entirely Sangiovese, head-trained and densely planted, with splashes of interplanted indigenous varieties (Colorino, Mammolo, Foglia Tonda, and Ciliegiolo), all planted in the late 1980s. Fermented in open-top oak casks and aged in a combination of 15-hectoliter Stockinger botti and 500- and 600-liter barrels (all well used), Le Trame delivers powerful, punchy minerality and robustly healthy fruit that soars from the glass.
