A wonderful and unusual estate, Podere Il Carnasciale is situated in the southern Chianti mountains in the Valdarno di Sopra region of Tuscany, sixty kilometers south of Florence. The secluded hilltop winery is run today by three generations of the Rogosky family; Bettina Rogosky with her son Moritz and his daughter Carla-Elle Rogosky. It’s a small, family affair.
Podere Il Carnasciale’s raison d'être is the extremely rare grape, Caberlot. The variety was first identified in the late 1960 ́s in an abandoned vineyard near Padua by the agronomist Dr. Remigio Bordini. While the grape has the organoleptic characteristics of Cabernet Franc, its ampelographic profile is closer to that of Merlot, leading us to assume that the loose-cluster Caberlot is a natural, spontaneous crossing of the two varieties.
After hearing of this discovery, Wolf Rogosky, then-patriarch of the family met Bordini and set out to produce a great wine of truly unique character. The first vineyard Carnasciale covering 0,3 hectares was planted in 1986 in high density, with 11.000 vines per hectare. The autochtonous terroir, rocky with steep slopes, had seen nothing but the culture of olive trees for over two hundred years. Two further plots were planted in 1999 and 2004, and the Selva and Vincaie vineyards to the production.
The estate is organically certified, and all work in the vineyards is carried out with the utmost respect for the soil and the plants, entirely by hand. Pruning, budding and leaf-management are all done manually and finely tuned to the characteristics of the season, and they do not use chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. All eventual sanitary treatments are natural and organic, and the grounds are labored only when necessary, with partial greening.
Podere Il Carnasciale’s wines capture both the boldness and elegance of Tuscany through a unique medium—Caberlot.
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