The 2019 Baricci Brunello di Montalcino Montosoli is a beautifully sculpted, site-specific expression of Sangiovese, showcasing the grace and precision for which the Montosoli cru is famed. The 2019 vintage was exceptional in... Read More
Founded in the sixties by Primo Pacenti, Canalicchio di Sopra remains family-owned. Its establishment represented a substantive risk, as Pacenti, a peasant farmer up until the abolition of the sharecropping system, possessed little... Read More
Founded in the sixties by Primo Pacenti, Canalicchio di Sopra remains family-owned. Its establishment represented a substantive risk, as Pacenti, a peasant farmer up until the abolition of the sharecropping system, possessed little... Read More
The 2019 Chianti Classico from Castell’in Villa is a beautifully austere, terroir-driven expression of 100% Sangiovese. Fermented in stainless steel and aged in large neutral oak casks, it offers a textbook profile of traditional... Read More
The 2019 Collemattoni Brunello di Montalcino is a beautifully poised and classically structured Sangiovese, showing the refinement and freshness that define this highly regarded vintage. Fermented with native yeasts and aged for... Read More
Times were tough in Piemonte in the early ’90s, as the area had been challenged by a succession of less-than-stellar vintages (prior, of course, to the six-year streak that ran from ’95 to ’01). It started Gaja thinking... Read More
Times were tough in Piemonte in the early ’90s, as the area had been challenged by a succession of less-than-stellar vintages (prior, of course, to the six-year streak that ran from ’95 to ’01). It started Gaja thinking... Read More
Below the town of Sant'Angelo in Colle, Lisini sprawls over 120 hectares, 24 of which are planted to vines. The 2019 embodies this warm, munificent, exotically scented southern stretch of Montalcino. Ripe arbutus berry and... Read More
The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is a powerful yet refined expression of Sangiovese, crafted only in exceptional vintages and aged extensively in large Slavonian oak casks. It opens with aromas of dark cherry, dried rose,... Read More
In his youth Vincenzo Abbruzzese spent summers working at Valdicava, his grandparents’ winery in northern Montalcino. His grandmother bought these gentle slopes in 1953 and with her husband planted the first vines here. However,... Read More