Ninety-nine points from Wine Enthusiast — the highest score this estate has ever received for a standard Brunello. Blue flowers, rose, undergrowth and leather, from a five-star vintage.
Luminous garnet with bright reflections. The nose is earthy and perfumed at once: blue flowers and rose, undergrowth, leather, alongside black berry fruit — blackberry above all — with tobacco, musk and liquorice. On the palate the wine is elegant and enveloping, with a vibrant minerality cutting through the ripe fruit and tannins that are now fine and fully integrated. There is a coolness to this wine, something of crushed stone and lavender, that keeps it remarkably fresh. The finish is long and persistent. Drinking window well into the 2040s. Around 18 degrees. Lovely with roast red meat, game or an aged pecorino.
In Montalcino, grandparents call their granddaughters potazzine, after the small, brightly coloured birds of the Tuscan countryside. That is what their grandmother called Viola and Sofia, the daughters of owner Gigliola Giannetti — and the estate grew in step with them: Viola was born in 1993, the founding year, and when Sofia arrived in 1996 two more hectares took the total to five.
The Brunello is made traditionally here: a spontaneous fermentation of some forty days on the estate's own wild yeasts, without temperature control, followed by more than three years in casks of 30 and 50 hectolitres of Slavonian oak from Garbellotto. Unfiltered.
Of this vintage we have eight bottles left. With production of some 35,000 bottles for the whole estate, that is what remains of a great year.
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