Producer Profile: Silvio Nardi
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Immersed in the natural, untamed Tuscan countryside...
Producer profile: Silvio Nardi
A number of estates at Montalcino have plots in different parts of the commune, with different characteristics, but nowhere is the diversity of terroir more striking than in the case of Silvio Nardi.
There are nearly 10ha to the southeast of the village at a property called Manachiara, which in the local dialect means ‘bright morning’.
It is a gorgeously open, sunny place with long views in all directions and a continual movement of the air.
The original property of the Nardi family, Casale del Bosco is at the opposite end of the commune, on the edge of the DOCG zone to the west.
What I love here is the sense of being immersed in natural, untamed Tuscan countryside.
Muddy paths lead from one vineyard to another through rugged woodland and the vines are planted on virgin soils.
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The total holding over the two properties consists of eight sub-zones divided into no fewer than 36 plots.
The parts of this complicated jigsaw come together in the estate Brunello, a cuvée assembled with the consultancy of Bordeaux oenologist Eric Boissenot.
But for the joy of Brunello fans, there are also two single vineyard selections, one from the east and one from the west.
Richard Baudains is the regional chair for Veneto in the Decanter World Wine Awards.
Richard Baudains was born and bred in Jersey in the Channel Islands and trained to be a teacher of English as a foreign language. After several years in various foreign climes, Baudains settled down in beautiful Friuli-Venezia Giulia, having had the good fortune to reside previously in the winemaking regions of Piemonte, Tuscany, Liguria and Trentino-Alto Adige. Baudains wrote his first article for Decanter in 1989 and has been a regular contributor on Italian wines ever since. His day job as director of a language school conveniently leaves time for a range of wine-related activities including writing for the Slow wine guide, leading tastings and lecturing in wine journalism at L’Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche and for the web-based Wine Scholars’ Guild.