IGT Red

Terrescure Bernardeschi 2.60 Governo all'Uso Toscano

Terrescure

Grapes
Sangiovese, Merlot
Denomination
Toscana IGT
Region
Tuscany
ABV
13.5%
Body
Medium to full
Drink
Now–2028

A Tuscan red made the old governo way: part of the harvest is dried, deepening a Sangiovese and Merlot blend into ripe plum, cherry and vanilla. From Terrescure, the Valiani family's 10-hectare estate at Certaldo. Medium-bodied, 13.5%, drink young.

Price
£15.10 Save 20%

2024 · 75cl · checked 13 Sep

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Tasting Notes

What Bernardeschi 2.60 tastes like

Drawn from 621 Vivino reviews and the Vino.com and Vinello shop cards: black fruit and cherry first, then the prune and vanilla richness the part-dried governo grapes bring.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial (drinker consensus)
Tasted on
27 August 2026
Vintage in glass
2024
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Taste profile
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Black fruit first: blackberry and plum lead the 621 Vivino reviews of this wine, with cherry and raspberry behind. The part-dried governo grapes show as prune and raisin, and drinkers report a layer of vanilla and tobacco over the top. Vinello's card adds eucalyptus and caramel.

BlackberryBlackberry
CherryCherry
PlumPlum
PrunePrune
TobaccoTobacco
LeatherLeather
Black pepperBlack pepper
VanillaVanilla
Palate

Medium-bodied and ripe, with the creamy texture and well-defined tannins Vino.com's own description points to. Vinello's sheet lists a little sugar left in the wine, about 16 grams per litre, so expect a rounded, faintly sweet edge rather than a bone-dry Tuscan red. It holds 13.5% comfortably.

Finish

Long and gently spicy, closing on plum, liquorice and a little black pepper, the spice notes Vivino drinkers log most.

Overall

Drinkers score it 4.1 on Vivino, steady across vintages (1,052 ratings on the 2018 alone; 132 so far on this 2024). A friendly, ripe style from the Valiani family's young Certaldo estate: drink it in its first three or four years with beef, game or mature cheese.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Buying the 2024 in the UK

Vino.com ships the 2024 to the UK; Vinello and other EU shops carry it too, and prices swing widely between them, so compare before you order.

Best price · 75 cl £15.10 at vino
Price spread £15.10 Across 1 UK retailer tracked
Retailers tracked 1UK 1 in stock
Vintages live 2024 Current release: 2024
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £20.13 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 13 Sep 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Bernardeschi 2.60 scores as a buy

Judged on the 2024's merchant prices, its medium body at 13.5%, drinker scores and its place in Terrescure's three-wine range.

Best intro to this style 8.5/10

Ripe fruit, a rounded, faintly sweet edge and gentle tannin make it one of the friendliest Tuscan reds to start on.

Best with food 8.4/10

Soft, ripe tannin and plummy fruit flex from Sunday roasts to ragù and mature cheese; only delicate fish and lean salads sit badly with it.

Best value 7.0/10

EU shops list it from around £9 to £19; the UK-shipped route costs more. A 4.1 Vivino score and a 98/99 from Luca Maroni buy a lot of wine at the low end of that range.

Best everyday bottle 6.8/10

Weeknight-friendly in style; the UK-landed price pushes it toward weekend bottles rather than daily ones.

Best for an occasion 4.5/10

A scored label with a story to tell at the table, but it is an IGT everyday-plus red; for a statement, step up to a Chianti Classico Riserva or Brunello.

Best for cellar 3.0/10

Governo is a technique for early drinking: fruit-led, IGT-tier, no ageing mandate. Enjoy it inside three or four years of the harvest.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Toscana in five fields

A compact view of what the Toscana denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Sangiovese, Merlot.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Arezzo · Firenze · Grosseto · Livorno · Lucca · Massa Carrara · Pisa · Pistoia · Prato · Siena
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
IGT · Toscana
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

The 2024, the current release

Vino.com lists three scores for the 2024: 98/99 from Luca Maroni, 90 from James Suckling and 91 from its own tasting panel. Drink it young, while the fruit leads.

2024 Current release
Lowest price
£15.10
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Vino.com lists three scores for the 2024: 98/99 from Luca Maroni, 90 from James Suckling and 91 from its own panel. The part-dried governo grapes give it a ripe, plummy edge; drink it while that fruit is fresh.

2024 Current release
Lowest price
£15.10
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Vino.com lists three scores for the 2024: 98/99 from Luca Maroni, 90 from James Suckling and 91 from its own panel. The part-dried governo grapes give it a ripe, plummy edge; drink it while that fruit is fresh.

Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Toscana IGT: why this red sits outside Chianti's rules

Toscana IGT covers all ten Tuscan provinces and leaves blends free, which suits a governo wine built on Merlot alongside Sangiovese. Terrescure farms at Certaldo, in the province of Florence.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

Toscana is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Toscana falls within Tuscany, covering Arezzo · Firenze · Grosseto · Livorno · Lucca · Massa Carrara · Pisa · Pistoia · Prato · Siena.

Wine appellations of Tuscany

Made at Terrescure, Certaldo.

04

Reading the label

  • TerrescureProducer / estate
  • Sangiovese · MerlotGrape varieties
  • Toscana IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2024Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 13.5% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Toscana IGT Rosso Governo all'Uso Toscano Bernardeschi 2.60 Terrescure

Tracked from
£15.10
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Governo means handling the harvest twice
  1. 01

    Governo means handling the harvest twice

    Cost up

    Part of the grapes are picked by hand, dried for about 20 days and fermented separately before joining the wine, per Vino.com's description: two production streams for one bottle.

  2. 02

    A 10-hectare, three-wine family start-up

    Cost up

    Terrescure, founded by Andrea and Marco Valiani in 2016, makes just three wines from about 10 hectares, so there are no bulk-winery economies behind this label.

  3. 03

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    On the £18.90 Vino.com asks for the 2024 (August 2026), about £3.11 of duty and £3.15 of VAT are baked in: a third of the price is tax.

  4. 04

    Critic scores on the current release

    Cost up

    A 98/99 from Luca Maroni and a 90 from James Suckling, as listed by Vino.com, let a young estate charge more than an unscored IGT red.

  5. 05

    IGT rules keep cellar time short

    Cost down

    Toscana IGT imposes no minimum ageing, so the 2024 reached the market inside two years; nothing like the barrel-and-bottle years a Chianti Classico Riserva must fund.

01

Governo means handling the harvest twice

Cost up

Part of the grapes are picked by hand, dried for about 20 days and fermented separately before joining the wine, per Vino.com's description: two production streams for one bottle.

Food Pairing

Beef, game and mature cheese: where it fits at the table

Vino.com's card points it at red meat, especially beef, game and mature cheeses. The rows below say why: ripe fruit and soft tannin against protein, salt and fat.

Tannin softening Strong match

Roast beef and the Sunday table

Beef protein rounds off its well-defined tannins, and the ripe plum fruit answers a roast's caramelised edges. Vino.com's card names red meat, especially beef, first.

Try with: Sunday Roast Beef · Ribeye steak · Fillet steak · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

Game and dark, slow-cooked stews

Medium body with dried-fruit depth stands up to venison and long-braised meat without drowning it. Game sits on the merchant's pairing card alongside beef.

Try with: Venison Stew · Beef stew · braised wild boar

Salt balance Good match

Mature cheeses

Salty aged cheese meets the wine's ripe, faintly sweet edge, the same logic that puts port next to cheddar, scaled down. Vino.com suggests a platter of mature cheeses.

Try with: Cheese board · Strong cheddar cheese · aged pecorino

Aromatic bridge Good match

Tomato-rich ragù and baked pasta

Plum and cherry fruit bridge straight into slow-cooked tomato, and its acidity keeps pace with a bolognese without turning sharp.

Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · lasagne · rigatoni al ragù · More pairings →

Sweet balance Good match

Barbecue glazes and charred edges

Its gentle residual sweetness, about 16 grams per litre on Vinello's sheet, hugs sticky glazes and char instead of clashing with them.

Try with: BBQ ribs · Pulled pork · char siu · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Delicate fish and lean salads

A ripe, softly sweet-edged red flattens white fish and lean green plates. For those plates pour a crisp Tuscan white instead: Vernaccia di San Gimignano, grown in the hill town next door to Certaldo. Keep this bottle for the meat course.

Skip with: Grilled sea bass · green salad · sushi · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink it young: governo is about early pleasure

Governo was designed to make young wine rounder sooner. Drink the 2024 over its first three or four years; it is not built for a long cellar.

Drinking window
2025 → 2028

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
h1

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

Governo is a technique for early drinking: fruit-led, IGT-tier, no ageing mandate. Enjoy it inside three or four years of the harvest.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£15.10 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

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Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 13 Sep 2026, 00:28 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Related grapes, places and pairings

Producer
Terrescure Tuscany
Grapes
Sangiovese Merlot
Denomination
Toscana IGT
Region
Tuscany Region guide

Common Questions

It is an old Tuscan practice. Part of the harvest is dried, then added back to the wine, where a light second ferment deepens colour and rounds it out. Terrescure revived it for this bottling, which is why it tastes riper than most young Tuscan reds.

Terrescure, a young estate at Certaldo between Florence and Siena. Andrea Valiani, a wine trade veteran of more than 40 years, founded it with his son Marco in 2016. Its importer describes about 10 hectares of vineyards and just three wines; Bernardeschi 2.60 is named after the vineyard this red comes from.

Sangiovese and Merlot form the core; Vivino and Vinello also list a share of Cabernet Sauvignon. It carries 13.5% alcohol.

Vino.com files it as dry, but Vinello's technical sheet lists about 16 grams per litre of residual sugar. In the glass that reads as a ripe, rounded red with a soft sweet edge, not a bone-dry one.

Red meat, especially beef, plus game and mature cheeses, which is Vino.com's own pairing card for it. Its ripe fruit also sits well with ragù and barbecue glazes.

As listed by Vino.com: 98/99 from Luca Maroni, 90/100 from James Suckling and 91/100 from Vino.com's panel. Vivino drinkers average 4.1, with 132 ratings on the 2024 so far.

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