Italy ·
Here are just the most memorable lines I remember Gianfranco Soldera speaking over lunch in New York in 2015:
‘There are no good wines produced outside Italia.’
’Since the soils are no good there [Burgundy], they’d be better off growing potatoes.’ His passing in early 2019 leaves Tuscan wine without its most visible and persuasive advocate. For Gianfranco wine was not merely part of a life fully lived; wine was life’s largeness.
His wines reveal this largeness with a comprehensiveness that few producers - Italia or otherwise - quite manage.
Cheers,
Jason
