San Leonardo by Tenuta San Leonardo is an elegant red wine resulting from the merging of three different varieties: Carmenere, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It has a great ageing potential and an extraordinary ruby red colour with garnet shades. The bouquet is intense and complex, with elegant scents of mixed berries, currant, dark cherry, plums, vanilla, tobacco and cloves. It is well-structured and balanced and the scents perceived into the bouquet are recalled while tasting it. Tannins are elegant and soft, the aromatic persistence is long-lasting. We recommend San Leonardo by Tenuta San Leonardo with game, red meat, matured cheese and roasts.\n \n Intense ruby red with garnet reflections. Complex, intense and fruity on the nose, with hints of berries, pepper, capsicum and vanilla. Enveloping, warm, persistent, full and round on the palate.\n \n Producer Information\n Every story has its dramatic turning-point. Tenuta San Leonardo saw that moment at the end of the 1960s, when Marchese Anselmo Guerrier Gonzaga (1895-1974), agriculturalist and passionate vigneron, passed on to his son Carlo the responsibility of giving a new face to the family farming estate. Quite a few changes then ensued in the Trento-based winery’s vineyards: the traditional pergola system was joined by the Guyot method and by spurred cordon, and Carmenère and Merlot, varieties that had flourished here for decades if not centuries, gained new neighbors, above all Cabernet Sauvignon. The change that Tenuta San Leonardo underwent was in fact a radical renewal. At first glance,however, nothing seems to have changed from the past, and the estate still looks today like a hortus conclusus relying on the same traditional values as ever. But behind the gate that protects the property there are no longer just fields of grain or corn, no more mulberries for the silkworms. Today, there are grapevines, laid out in accord with the most up-to-date viticultural canons, and the vine-rows speak eloquently of the culture of wine.
