Tenuta San Leonardo, Arte A San Leonardo, 2020

This wine is offered In Bond, with an estimated delivery late 2025 

For ARTE, a contemporary artist is invited to create a memento of the history and identity of the San Leonardo Estate. Each edition symbolically begins and ends at the beginning of spring, following the seasonal cycle of wine production, and unfolds in different moments: residency, research, design and production.

For this third edition (San Leonardo 2020 vintage) 'Memories of Reliable Things', artist Linda Fregni Nagler focused her research on the San Leonardo museum, founded in 1975 by the Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga – a place that houses dozens of objects related to the history of the company and local rural society. The artist selected five objects from among those on display, and transformed them into images suspended in time.

ARTE will be available for purchase at 11am GMT, 27th March, with a limited quantity available, and we are delighted and proud to be offering ARTE exclusively in the UK. Securing 9L of San Leonardo 2020 puts you in front of the queue ahead of Arte's global release.

Read more about this and previous editions of ARTE a San Leonardo.

"The latest vintage is a remarkable wine, fine-boned, pure and detailed, with herbal fruit, filigree tannins and the estate’s signature vein of spicy acidity. The nose is pure and herbaceous-led, rosehips, hawthorn, and wild mountain herbs from the carménère lead the aromatics, supported by classic Cabernet lead pencil, cedar and forest berries and spicier Merlot red plums. The palate is sapid and fresh, with crystalline blue and red fruits, capturing a floral purity, that progress in a linear fashion to the savoury, saline, dry spice-inflected finish. Carrying just 12.5% alcohol, this mid-weight charmer reinforces San Leonardo’s deserved reputation for paying homage to classic Bordeaux, focussed on energy and elegance."
Tom Harrow