 Hello, welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I'm your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Sherin Ton. Welcome back to the show. We're here in Tuscany at the Il Bordeaux Estate. Il Bordeaux is an estate actually owned by the Ferragamo family, the Salvatore Ferragamo, the fashion mogul, the brand that Sherin and I like actually very much, right? Yeah, we're just talking about it. And I think that that was actually the first designer label that I knew on and learned when I was a kid. So I always grew up understanding that, you know, a woman need to have a pair of Ferragamo shoes. It was the only brand I knew about. It's the only fashion brand. Actually, I knew about for the longest time. Anyways, we actually met at, actually, Salvatore Ferragamo in Hong Kong and James Suckling's Great Wines of Italy. That's why we're here at the estate. Well, we tasted some of the wines in Hong Kong. You know, at first I had the impression oh, it's just the Ferragamo name, the wines are gonna be okay, but we were impressed with some of the wines, right? The wine was blown away by one of the wines. And we're gonna show it today, actually. So we're gonna taste just talk about a few of the wines here. We don't have the flagship wine, Il Bodo, the Super Tuscan. We'll be talking about that wine later. We're making a vlog about what it's like to stay here on this estate because the Ferragamo family owns the whole village. You'll have to stay tuned for that. Let's check out some of the wines. The first one I'm actually impressed with is actually this Rosato, the Rosé del Bodo, Il Bodo 2018, 100% San Giovese. For me, for me, it's a lighter color Rosé, obviously. For a light Rosé, more provincial style. It has substantial body weight. For me, it's like you get a lot of strawberry and San Giovese, you got a lot of minerals. For me, I get apple blossom. Anything else you remember about this wine? The blossom was interesting. A little bit of this pear drop sort of refreshing aspect to it as well. For a lighter style Rosé, it really has substantial body. And so I like about long finish. I was actually really impressed. I had this at 90 out of 100. I thought it was right. Did you have it that high? When you was... Okay, I thought it was really impressive. So next, we're gonna talk about a wine that Sherene likes very much. Yeah, so this is 100% San Giovese. Make into a sparkling wine for the eight months on the ladies. I was just told that a new vintage is going to be 60 months. So a step up in terms of the seriousness of the wine. This is 2012. What I like about it is... It's called the bordeaux de bordeaux. 2012. What I really like about it is you get the oscillitic aspect immediately. You know, the yeastiness, the bread. But you also get this nice, like wet, worn out, nuttiness to it. You do have to search for the fruit a little bit on the nose. But it also shows a different layers and complexity of the wine. On the palate, I get a ton of strawberry. Raspberry. Nice bubbles. The texture is pretty good. Acidity brushed through on a finish. Very integrated. You also get this, like, kind of the early-picking kind of green acidity to it. But it's very nicely integrated with the otolitic aspect. The acidity is going to go great with food, right? Absolutely. Yeah, it has acidity. But also the yeastiness to go great with a lot of food, the body, yeah. Well, let's go on to the wine that actually we were really impressed with when we were in Hong Kong. We have the Petruna Tascana Il Bodo San Giovese in Enfora 2017. We tasted the 16 in Hong Kong. We're tasting the 17 right now. Want to talk about this? So, what I like about this wine is it was in the Enfora for a year without the stem. And it's incredible for 2017 San Giovese. It's got a lot of body and fruitiness. But at the same time, it's kind of like it's kind of like a good-looking man or a beautiful woman without any makeup or any, like, put up front because there's a lot of fruit. But at the same time, when you heat onto the palate, it is so wonderfully integrated. Everything. You get these chewy and round tannins. Again, integrated. Acidity is there. Again, very integrated. And just marvelously drinkable for 2017 wine. I think for me, when you smell it and you look at the color, you think it would be delicate, like more medium to light body wine. And it's quite full and round on the palate and it has nice grippy tannins. This is what I like about it. I absolutely agree. Very much so. The nose is very interesting to me because it's not just fruit, right? But I almost feel like I taste the essence of the fruit. Kind of feel like I'm smelling the San Giovese skin. Or plum skin, not just plum or juice. Yeah. I had this at 92 out of 100. I thought it's spectacular. What do I... What? Is that a good job? Guys, check out this out. We are also doing a vlog of what it's like to actually stay on this whole village. I'll put the link in the description box too. Anything else you wanna add? Well, we'll see you at the next episode. It's all fruit wine. If you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. And we'll see you at the next episode.