Giovanna’s flagship wine “Le Trame”—formerly classified as Chianti Classico but proudly a Toscana Rosso since she wearied of the red tape and exited the appellation in 2012—comprises almost entirely Sangiovese, head-trained and densely planted, with splashes of interplanted indigenous varieties (Colorino, Mammolo, Foglia Tonda, and Ciliegiolo), all planted in the late 1980s. Fermented in open-top oak casks and aged in a combination of large botti and 500-liter barrels (all well used), Le Trame delivers powerful, punchy minerality and robustly healthy, untampered fruit that soars from the glass. The intensely hot and drought-affected 2022 growing season made for a robust and brooding Le Trame which nonetheless maintains a soaring sense of lift and a well-measured equilibrium—one enhanced by the presence of a portion of fruit from the elegance-enhancing Chiesamonti vineyard.