PODERE IL CARNASCIALE, Mercatale Valdarno

Podere Il Carnasciale is situated in the southern Chianti mountains in the Valdarno, thirty kilometers from Siena and Arezzo, and sixty kilometers south of Florence. True to Wolf Rogosky’s idea and vision, the small hilltop estate is run by Bettina Rogosky and her son Moritz, in collaboration with the enologist and winemaker Peter Schilling. The variety, or rather biotype, Caberlot, was first identified in the late 1960´s in an abandoned vineyard near Padua by the agronomist Dr. Remigio Bordini. While the grape has the
organoleptic characteristics of Cabernet Franc, its ampelographic profile however is closer to that of Merlot, leading us to assume that the loose-cluster Caberlot is a natural crossing of the varieties, a hybrid.