Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2021

Sesta di Sopra | Tuscany
Podere Sesta di Sopra | IT 53024 Castelnuovo dell'Abate

09842121 · 0,75 l · 98,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

This is certainly unique: one annual production. One barrel. Thirty hectolitres of Slavonian oak – and in it the entire Brunello ambition of the Spina family. No second barrel as a reserve. No possibility of correcting, topping up, stretching. What matures in this container is the annual production of the Annata: the 2.5 hectares of Brunello vineyard at 380 metres near Castelnuovo dell'Abate, the limestone marl, the manual labour of four decades, the decisions of each year. Sesta di Sopra produces around 4,000 bottles of Brunello – which is less than some estates quietly allow to disappear into the assemblage. 2021 was the year of transparency in Montalcino. Cool nights and warm days gave the Sangiovese that nervous tension that critics describe with the term "vertical" – energy instead of mass, precision instead of fullness. In the one barrel in which Sesta di Sopra matured its grapes, this vintage could only convince!

Bright ruby red with garnet nuances. Plum, dark cherry, nougat, liquorice in the background, delicate spice on the nose. The flavour has a tension that does not dissipate – grippy, well-integrated tannins, a salinity that carries and stretches the long finish. A wine that knows how much there is in it – and carries this knowledge with calm conviction. SUPERIORE.DE