Story of a Traminer emigrated to Tuscany and of its passito
Let me introduce myself my name is Carlo Gardini husband to (or maybe martyr to) Donatella Cinelli Colombini and I wish to tell you about the Traminer Vineyard at Fattoria del Colle
Carlo con l'uva di Traminer
One might think that it is an experiment or the desire for diversity at any cost, but in reality it is something more prosaic and less exceptional.
Everything began about 35 years ago when following a trend regarding wines with lower alcohol content a group of important Tuscan vineyards decided to use white grapes in the Chianti area to produce “Galestro”, a simple and easy to drink white wine destined to be matched with fish recipes and for the summer heat.
The years go by and my father in law together with his wine maker, who came from Veneto, this type of wine does not convince and they do not like it so how to use the Trebbiano grapes still present at Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda? After a careful consideration, and some discussions the winemaker proposes to plant Traminer to create a white wine that added to the Trebbiamo already existent the perfume of the new Traminer just arrived.
So the first bottles of “Sanchimento” arrived, the new white wine that gets its name from the Traminer Vineyard planted just behind the crape on the farm dedicated to San Clemente (pronounced in local slang as San Chimento).
With the passing of the years the old Trebbiano vines produced less and less, and slowly diminish until there are no more and the Sanchimento becomes a white Tuscan wine made only with Traminer grapes.
