You're welcome! Thanks for watching and cheers!

My pleasure! Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers!

The best way to think of it is that the term "Brunello" doesn't match up to a single clonal variation of Sangiovese but is better thought of as the term for Sangiovese grown in that region (though there may be a single clone within that region that dominates most plantings). The take away from my research was that micro-climate and other "terroir" factors may have more to do with what's seen as unique regional expression than clonal variation. Hope that helps. Cheers!

Hello! It's planted in Corsica where it goes by the name Nielluccio and represents about 35% of Corsica's total vineyard acreage. Cheers!

Thank you for your response. Technically you are correct if Nielluccio is Sangiovese and there are experts who say it is identical. However, there are others who say that it is a "close relation" while some on Corsica itself say it is a varietal in its own right. Whoever is correct; the total area of Nielluccio grown will be about 2450 hectares out of a Frech total of 800000 hectares or 0.003%.

Thanks for the feedback! It's very helpful to have this on the brain as I get ready to cast on Corsica in the (relatively) near future. There really is no debate any longer about the identity of Nielluccio and Sangiovese -- as Rob Tebow pointed out in his excellent blog post on the subject (fringewine.blogspot.com/2012/02/weird-blend-wednesday-nielluccio.html) a key study in 2005 (that I'll link to here for reference: www.vitis-vea.de/admin/volltext/e051827.pdf) established the genetic identity of the two Corsican clones of Nielluccio (among other grapes) and Sangio. For plantings of a particular grape, the source I follow is the database published every 10 years by the University of Adelaide (www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/databases/winegrapes/) and for specific data on Sangio plantings I used their breakdown of the top 50 planted varieties in the world (www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/databases/winegrapes-section-VIII.pdf) that identified France as having the third largest number of plantings in the world after Italy and Argentina. You're absolutely correct that the total hectarage of Sangio grown in France is minuscule, but, in fairness, my claim was never that it was widely planted, just that it was planted in France. Thanks again for the initial question and for your follow up. I research my casts as thoroughly as I can, but I make errors, and it's always good for me to return to my sources when there are any doubts, and considering questions like this is helpful as I think through what future casts might look like. Cheers!

You aren’t wrong either. Corsica has been culturally a child of Italian influences, including its viticulture. France only took it in a year before Napoleon’s birth if I remember correctly.

Who's his audience, a bunch of wee-todds? I had no problem following along and I'm a newbie.

One of the best presenters I've ever learned from. That said, you can slow the playback speed to suit your needs. Give that a try.