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Tenuta Luce

Lucente, Tenuta Luce (2022)

£36.00
2022 • 75cl • 14%
Red • Smooth & Refined • Merlot / Sangiovese
The Luce estate's second wine, and the easiest way into Montalcino's most famous outsider - Merlot-led, supple, and made to drink young.
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Lucente is the more approachable half of the Tenuta Luce story - the same Frescobaldi estate, the same southwest-facing Montalcino slopes, but built for pleasure now rather than the cellar. Where the flagship Luce leans on Sangiovese, here Merlot takes the lead, drawn mostly from the lower, clay-rich plots that give the grape its fleshier, rounder character.

The winemaking is deliberately gentle. Fermentation runs in temperature-controlled stainless steel, with around three weeks on the skins, before the wine spends twelve months in French oak barrels - part new, part used - to round it out without burying the fruit. The point is polish, not power.

The result is deep ruby red, with a generous nose of pomegranate, wild blackberry and violet over a thread of sweet spice. Broad and velvety on the palate, the tannins fine and already well knit in. A genuinely easy wine to like. Serve at 16-18°C.

The 2022 Vintage

2022 was a hard, hot year in Montalcino - a dry winter into a scorching, drought-stressed summer that had the team irrigating and shading the vines to see the fruit through. Rain in late July and early August was the turning point, rehydrating the berries just in time. Picking was pulled forward to 28 August for the Merlot, finishing with the Sangiovese in the last week of September. The wine carries the sunny character of the vintage - ripe, generous fruit - while late-September cool nights kept enough freshness to balance it.

Drink: now - 2030

The Fulham Wine Co Take

A clever bottle: serious-estate provenance at an everyday price, in a style you can open tonight without apology. The Merlot makes it plush and welcoming, the Sangiovese keeps it honest with a savoury, Tuscan edge - so it never tips into sweet or soupy the way cheaper Merlot blends can. The one to pour when you want something with a real name behind it but no fuss in the glass.

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Tenuta Luce

Born from a visionary partnership between Vittorio Frescobaldi and Robert Mondavi, Tenuta Luce defies Montalcino tradition to create super-premium, modern masterpieces. Situated in the rugged southwest of the appellation, the estate uniquely pairs high-altitude Sangiovese grown on rocky galestro soils with plush Merlot cultivated in lower, clay-rich terraces. The resulting wines are a masterclass in tension and power, seamlessly blending traditional Tuscan acidity with opulent New World concentration.

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Montalcino

Montalcino is the home of Brunello - the most celebrated form of Sangiovese, grown on warm, sun-baked hills in southern Tuscany sheltered by the bulk of Mount Amiata, and famous for ageing beautifully over decades. The same slopes give a younger, brighter wine too: Rosso di Montalcino, made to drink sooner, all ripe red cherry and warmth without the long wait. Two faces of one remarkable place, both unmistakably Sangiovese.

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