The estate is named for the ground it sits on and for the nineteenth-century railway station still standing there, 3.5 miles southwest of Montalcino. Antinori bought it in 1995 and made its first Brunello that year. This is the 2021: all Sangiovese, 14% alcohol.
Vineyards sit at 430 feet on clay and limestone full of fine gravel. Skins macerate twelve days, then the wine spends two years in oak casks of 30 to 80 hectolitres, big enough that the wood stays in the background, and a long rest in bottle.
2021 ran hot and dry until late-August rain let the fruit finish slowly. Loquat, blood orange and yellow flowers, then red fruit with menthol and tobacco, savoury tannins, a long spiced finish. Wine Spectator 95 points, James Suckling 94, Vinous 94, Falstaff 94.
Wine Spectator puts the window at 2029 to 2045: this is one to put away. If you want Montalcino tonight, buy a Rosso di Montalcino instead.
Opening it now, decant an hour. Bistecca, braised beef, aged pecorino.
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The estate is named for the ground it sits on and for the nineteenth-century railway station still standing there, 3.5 miles southwest of Montalcino. Antinori bought it in 1995 and made its first Brunello that year. This is the 2021: all Sangiovese, 14% alcohol.
Vineyards sit at 430 feet on clay and limestone full of fine gravel. Skins macerate twelve days, then the wine spends two years in oak casks of 30 to 80 hectolitres, big enough that the wood stays in the background, and a long rest in bottle.
2021 ran hot and dry until late-August rain let the fruit finish slowly. Loquat, blood orange and yellow flowers, then red fruit with menthol and tobacco, savoury tannins, a long spiced finish. Wine Spectator 95 points, James Suckling 94, Vinous 94, Falstaff 94.
Wine Spectator puts the window at 2029 to 2045: this is one to put away. If you want Montalcino tonight, buy a Rosso di Montalcino instead.
Opening it now, decant an hour. Bistecca, braised beef, aged pecorino.
Shop more Chianti and Sangiovese, the rest of our Tuscany wines, or all of our Italian wine, with Brooklyn pickup and same-day delivery across NYC.
