First year production: 1724

Property: Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga

Oenologist: Carlo Ferrini

Agronomist: Patrizio Gasparinetti

Conduction: Biological

Bottles produced: 286.000

Hectares: 40,00

Address: From the A22 del Brennero, exit ala-avio, continue towards Verona for about 6 km, follow the signs for the estate.

 

 

Ben before the rise of the Bordhealthy Cuts, the Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga makes him the Bordeaux lesson leading among the first barriques in the cellar in Italy. As a young winemaker familiar with Barbatelle di Cabernet in the legendary Tenuta San Guido by Mario Incisa della Rocchetta (Sassicaia), where he makes apprenticeship to return to Avio and distort the production of the family company. With the support of Giacomo Tachis, a father of Italian modern enology, it was easy to understand that this splendid terroir could generate a precious pearl as the San Leonardo, whose first vintage is placed 1982. The success of this red, which by memory of Guide has not been wrong a vintage, it was unexpectedly celebrated Oltralpe, at the Vinexpo Fair of Bordeaux, where at the end of the 1980s in the blind tasting and from perfect stranger, he drained against the untouchable Premiers Crus of the Médoc. Today it is very popular among fans preserving more than one bottle to thousandth, due to its incredible capacity of evolution, worthy of the best wines in the world.