Piemme Petit Manseng Toscana IGT 2018 Le Pupille

This is a special wine that I have followed since birth. The 2014 vintage was experimental, and the 2015 vintage showed more focused. The wine was not made in 2016 because the Petit Manseng was directed to the Poggio Argentato instead. The 2017 vintage was also skipped because the growing season was too hot. So, here we are at the lovely 2018 Piemme. This is only the third year of production for a niche wine that remains very much a passion project for Elisabetta Geppetti and her team. The Petit Manseng is left on the vines for an extra week to mature, and the grapes are fermented in tonneaux and later aged on the fine lees. One big change made in this vintage is that the wine sees neutral or one-year-old oak. Plenty of honey, peach and more honey lift from the bouquet. The wine sports thick glycerin that moves heavily in the glass. This is a dry wine, although there is ample softness from the fruit. Production is limited to under 3,000 bottles.