100% Montepulciano from vines around fifty years old, aged thirty months in large oak casks. Powerful and mature, with only four bottles of this 2013 remaining.
Deep garnet with a brick-coloured rim that gives away its thirteen years in bottle. The nose is rich and complex: dried cherry and plum, tobacco, leather and a spicy touch of cinnamon, with an earthy, woodland note underneath it all. On the palate the wine is dense and full-bodied, with tannins that have turned soft and silky after all these years. The finish is long and warm, with an aftertaste of dried fruit and spice that lingers for several minutes. Serve with roasted meat or a hearty game dish — and feel free to decant it an hour before serving.
Fattoria San Lorenzo sits in the rolling hills of Montecarotto, in the heart of the Marche region. Since 1995, owner and winemaker Natalino Crognaletti has farmed the estate entirely biodynamically, without added yeasts or interventions that would mask the character of the grape. Across some thirty hectares grow the grapes for roughly eighty thousand bottles a year — wines given the time to become themselves.
Il Solleone is the estate's most ambitious red: 100% Montepulciano from the vineyard of the same name, with vines averaging fifty years old on clay-limestone soil.
After sixty days of maceration and fermentation on wild yeasts in wooden vats, the wine ages for about thirty months in large oak casks. This 2013 is a wine deliberately built for long ageing — and it has by now had that ageing in full.
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