Frescobaldi Toscana Releases the 8th Vintage of Gorgona
The Gorgona wine is a result of Frescobaldi’s social reform project launched in 2012 on Italy’s last-remaining prison island, established over 150 years ago
According to the Wine Industry Advisor
The eighth vintage of Tenuta Frescobaldi’s Gorgona has debarked. Every year, wine-lovers eagerly await the month of June, when they will again have the pleasure of savouring the cru wine made on Italy’s last prison island, founded in 1869.
The inmates there have been helping produce this blend of Vermentino and Ansonica since 2012, all in the hope of redirecting the course of their own lives by learning a profession, using their time productively, and believing in a better future. Their wine, “appealing and wild” at the same time, conveys redemption, suggests a desire for recovery, and is emblematic of hope, all amidst a myriad of emotions.
Read more at source: Wine Industry Advisor
