Tenuta di Trinoro 'Campo di Magnacosta' Toscana IGT, Tuscany, Italy 2021

Located in a remote corner of southeastern Tuscany, Tenuta di Trinoro specializes in rich, age-worthy red wines made of Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Petit Verdot. The Estate sits in viticultural isolation in the Orcia Valley near Sarteano, where Tuscany meets Umbria and Lazio.

Campo di Magnacosta is a 1.5-hectare (100% Cabernet Franc) parcel of river gravel and silt on the valley’s bottom, at 400 meters asl, where an old stream ate into a hill (magna: eat; costa: hillside). It was planted over 20 years ago with cuttings from a vineyard in Pomerol where Cabernet Franc has grown for three centuries. We have been bottling this Campo separately since 2011.

“The most powerful of three single-vineyard Cabernet Franc-based wines in this series is the Tenuta di Trinoro 2021 Campo di Magnacosta. Aside from the very high 16% alcohol content, this wine is also very elegant and poised with a compact and dense quality of fruit and pretty mineral tones at the back of blackcurrant, toasted chestnut husk and earthy iris root. The wine is muscle and brawn, but it also reveals pretty elegance.” Wine Advocate, 94 points