Wine Testamatta di Bibi Graetz, “Colore”, Toscana IGT, 2008

Young Tuscan winemaker Bibi Graetts said “color” your best wine. To create this unique beverage, characterized by an elegant aroma and unique flavor, use grapes grown on clay and marl soils in the vicinity of Fiesole. Each vine age of about 60 years removed no more than 500 grams of the highest quality berries. Vinification drink for 20 days passes in the open 225-liter barrels, where the wort is mixed by hand every day 6-8 times. The wine is aged 24 months in French oak barrels, and after bottling, before going on sale, it is still found in the cellars of the year. Magnificent wine storage capacity is on average 15-20 years.

Growing up in an artistic family of artists, and the artist himself, having a diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts, Bibi Graetts from a young age I became interested in winemaking. Over time, this passion fully captured a young man, and he decided to engage in the production of wine professionally. Graetts has in its property 4 hectares of vineyards and another 10.5 leases. Working on the ground, he is constantly on the lookout, trying to find the old planting grapes and create new ones to create the best wines. Bibi Graettsa activities can hardly be called a classic wine, but rather a creation in which he relies more on their intuition and feelings than the rule. All their wines, with the exception of white “Casamata”, Bibi creates from autochthonous Tuscan grapes. In the name of your favorite wine “Testamatta”, which translates as “crazy head”, a former artist reflected his irrepressible and expressive nature, helping to reveal a huge creative potential of talented oenologist. At present, the wines produced in Fiesole (there is a winery Graettsa), marked by high estimates of international critics like Robert Parker and Wine Spectator, and are among the best Italian wines on the world market.