Tenuta San Leonardo: wines and prices

About Tenuta San Leonardo

Tenuta San Leonardo is one of the most fascinating stories in Italian wine. It lies at Borghetto all'Adige, at the southern tip of Trentino in the Vallagarina, where an ancient monastic settlement became over the centuries the home of the Marchesi Guerrieri Gonzaga, owners for more than three hundred years. It was Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, who studied winemaking partly in France and worked with consultant Giacomo Tachis, who believed that this narrow, breezy valley between the mountains, with its marked day-night temperature swings, could produce a great Bordeaux-style red. Thus San Leonardo was born, from Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère and Merlot, soon dubbed the Bordeaux of Italy. Today the estate, led by his son Anselmo, is farmed organically and keeps a classic style: wines of elegance rather than power, underpinned by freshness, fine tannins and remarkable longevity, released only after extended ageing.