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Red Wine: 2013 | Bibi Graetz | Testamatta

Bibi Graetz Testamatta offers aromas of prune, dried flowers, porcini and cedar. It has a full body, with velvety tannins and lots of ripe fruit and milk chocolate.

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Producer: Bibi Graetz

Ratings: JS | 97 WS | 90

Vintage: 2013

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Sangiovese

Country/Region: Italy, Tuscany

Bibi Graetz Testamatta offers aromas of prune, dried flowers, porcini and cedar. It has a full body, with velvety tannins and lots of ripe fruit and milk chocolate. Long and very soft, yet powerful.

Reviews:

• James Suckling: Very aromatic and exciting with citrus rind, plums, cedar and rose petals. Full body, fine and silky tannins and a long and beautiful finish. Love the persistence and intensity. Salty undertone at the end.

• Wine Spectator: A ripe style, delivering black cherry, plum, spice, tobacco and char flavors. Dense and firm, remaining fresh and long in the end. Needs to shed a little oak. Sangiovese.

Producer Information

Bibi Graetz is a Tuscan wine producer based in Fiesole, in the hills northeast of Florence. The company is particularly known for its IGT Toscana red wines Testamatta (‘Crazy Head’) and Colore produced from Sangiovese. However, the equivalent white wines from Ansonica are earning increasing attention. The estate’s history dates back to the mid 1990s when Bibi Graetz began taking an interest in the family vineyard, which until then was largely producing wine for family consumption. The Bibi Graetz winery was formed in 2000. In the new millenium Bibi began scouting out additional vineyard parcels in the area to rent. The estate entered the 2020s working with approximately 30 hectares (75 acres) of vines that are divided into small, organically farmed plots. The winery is located in the main square of Fiesole and also home to Bibi and his family. The vineyard holdings are about to be dramatically extended, however. In 2020, 90 hectares (222 acres) of land right behind the winery was acquired. New vineyards have been planted on this property. Bibi grew up in a family of artists and himself studied at the Accademie d’Arte in Florence. Labels feature his colorful original artwork. See also Tom Hyland’s 2023 interview with Bibi Graetz.