Lunch with Monteverro: Super & Tuscan

Last week we hosted Olympia from our premium Tuscan winery Monteverro for lunch at Italian restaurant Tinello to show off her range of just released 2011s. These are available exclusively through Bancroft Wines. Read on for the tasting notes, as written by our very own Kenny Stewart...

Her visit was written up in Decanter, and The Drinks Business.

"Monteverro is one of the most exciting young properties I have come across..." Antonio Galloni - Wine Advocate

"Showing a level of moxie so high it touches peaks of brilliance and insanity, he planted his winemaking flag here. Given the excellent results, I can only say 'chapeau'." Monica Larner - Wine Advocate

Monteverro is that very rare thing, a fully-formed state of the art winery, established as recently as 2003 and already running like the proverbial Swiss watch. It is set upon the mineral-laden soils of Maremma in the South West of coastal Tuscany, 5 kilometres from the sea.  It was founded by single-minded German businessman and wine obsessive Georg Weber whose aim is to produce something as profound as his own personal wine epiphany: Chateau Latour 1961.  Zeroing in on a spectacular terroir, with help from France's most renowned soil specialists Lydia and Claude Bourguignon (DRC, Dujac, Leflaive, Sélosse, Dagueneau, Chave) and utilising its foremost expert in vine training Michel Duclos, Georg set about the hard work in 2004. His very first commercial vintage 2008 drew gasps of admiration: Italy's finest - Antonio Galloni - was fulsome in his praise and was astonished by the immediate success of the winery.