The estate's highest-rated wine, in one and a half litres. Vinous 98+, Decanter 97, Parker 96 — and of this magnum we own three. A bottle for the 2030s and beyond, not for next week.
A brilliant royal garnet red. The nose gives dried flowers and small red fruits, undergrowth, exotic spices, lavender, liquorice and balsamic herbs, with wild blueberry and a citrus freshness. Full, savoury and very long on the palate, with a silky texture and chalky tannins enveloping a compact core. From magnum the wine is unmistakably younger: the nose holds back, the tannins stand further forward and the fruit only fully unfolds after hours. This is a bottle for the 2030s and 2040s, not for next week. Around 18 degrees, and decanting here is not optional. Lovely with game, truffle 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 Riserva has existed only five times: 2004, 2006, 2011, 2015 and 2019. It is made only when the vineyard asks for it, comes from Le Prata — the highest plot, at 507 metres — and matures in a single thirty-hectolitre cask of Slavonian oak, followed by more than a year in bottle.
One cask, one plot, once every several years. In magnum, that is a bottle most cellars never see.
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