Lucente, Tenuta Luce (2022) Sparkling the brand's first release

the brand's first release

Alongside it sits a Colombian Crushed Coffee bar from Chococo

well-regarded Champagne house whose family has been part of the region for more than seven hundred years

then twelve months in air-dried American oak - just built to drink younger

Lucente, Tenuta Luce (2022) Sparkling the brand's first releaseLucente 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