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Rosso di Montalcino DOC 2018
Bright ruby red. Very lively nose of bright berries and blackcurrant with sweet, spicy components. Crisp, yet balanced acidity on the palate with a racy mix of fresh fruit and sweet extract spice. A cool but very authentic representative of its type that never pretends to be more than it is, but brings enough to be one of the most finessed Rossi of the vintage. It is de facto a very successful wine of a pleasing purity with a clear commitment to the appellation. SUPERIORE.DE
"The Val di Suga 2018 Rosso di Montalcino is a vibrant and fun red to pull out for your next veal or vegetarian lasagna. The wine is teeming with bright berry fruit with wild raspberry and cherry. Showing balanced acidity and a snappy, lean-bodied style, this is textbook Rosso. There is a note of candied cherry and sweet spice on the close. This vintage marks significant improvements since I last visited this wine. You get good value." Robert Parker
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 6 months tonneau
- Development: wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 29,78 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,95 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,85 g/l
- Sulfite: 37 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,48
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2026+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2016
Beautiful and very balanced red from the three main historic areas of Montalcino, which bring different geo-climatic characteristics due to their different slopes and altitudes - providing a unique balance between freshness and structure, body and elegance.
Ruby red with garnet reflections, opens immediately with a rich, complex nose. Initially dark cherry, chinotto orange and violet. Then it opens to broader, more complex notes of blueberry, vanilla, tobacco, cinnamon and chocolate with a subtle menthol finish. This juicy 2016 Brunello di Montalcino offers plenty of energy and brightness, transmitted through the cherry fruit and wild berry flavours at its core. The primary fruit is surrounded by spice, grilled herbs and floral earth. The natural complexity, purity and depth of the Sangiovese grape comes through particularly well in this dream vintage and especially in this Brunello. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright, noble ruby red with a radiant core. Open and inviting nose, slightly fleshy, with nuances of ripe sour cherries, pepper and raspberries, reverberating with rose hips. Shows very polished and balanced on the palate, with tight tannin, opens up great during the course, slightly salty finish." Falstaff
"Bricky ruby. Senescent fruit sweetness, lovely ripe cherry and undergrowth. Some apparent oak sweetness on the palate too but even so there is a delicacy here, perhaps because the tannins are so fine and relatively light. Elegant, dry, delicate, long, even juicy." Jancis Robinson
"There's something savory and slightly rustic about the 2016 Brunello di Montalcino that I find quite attractive. Baked black cherries, balsamic spice and hints of animal musk form up to create a beguiling display. The textures are silky-smooth, with cooling acids and salty minerals lifting the expression while giving way to tart red fruits. Tannins mount, slowly drying out the senses yet there's still plenty of pleasure to be found here today, as the 2016 comes across as both youthfully structured but also spicy and fresh. This is a blend of Val di Suga's vineyards throughout Montalcino." Vinous
"Aromas of iron, blood and cherry lead off in this smooth and vibrant red, with a well of dark fruit-black cherry and blackberry-settling in on the palate. Offers a dusting of dark chocolaty tannins on the finish." Wine Spectator
"Dusty notes with crushed gravel and dried tea leaves are a prelude to aromas of fresh button mushrooms and hints of fennel. Savory mushrooms and olives, followed by firm, fine-grained tannins. Structured and full-bodied." James Suckling
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 36 months barrique
- Development: partly barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,50 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,10 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,60 g/l
- Sulfite: 26 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,41
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2037+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino Riserva DOCG 2015
As with the Annata, the grapes for this Riserva come from the three main historical areas of Montalcino, which bring different geo-climatic characteristics due to their different slopes and altitudes - and thus provide a unique balance between freshness and structure, body and elegance.
The longer Riserva maturation of about one year enriches this Brunello both in its complexity and depth as well as with a more nuanced bouquet. There is a little more of everything here: more fruit, more minerals, leather, licorice, and on top of that, deep vegetal aromas make this wine more generous, layered, and enchanting. Its body is also fuller and more elegant than in the fresher, racier and more clearly focused 2016 Annata, due in part to the warmer, more opulent 2015 vintage. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 24/6 months tonneau/concrete tank
- Development: wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,82 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,84 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,82 g/l
- Sulfite: 51 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,47
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2043+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Vigna del Lago” DOCG 2016
The northern slope of Montalcino was not once covered with vines, but was cultivated with cereals, olives and cherries. In this area, influenced by the Apennines, the seasons are more pronounced, continental and the north wind lowers the temperature significantly in winter. It is therefore the coldest Brunello area at this time of year, but also the wettest. This northern slope is a gentle hill: a characteristic more reminiscent of the Crete Senesi area, right next to it, than of the two stiffer, steeper and warmer southern slopes of Montalcino.
Due to the climate and the origin of the soils, the grapes in this area of Montalcino are harvested last every year. Vigna del Lago is the vineyard that welcomes all visitors arriving from the north of Montalcino. It takes its name from the lake that surrounds it and plays a fundamental role in the microclimate of the area; the soil is a constant alternation between clay and strips of very fine galestro.
Brunello Vigna del Lago is a historic cru from the Val di Suga winery, it is an old school Brunello, from the times before the arrival of barriques and technology. An authentic product that is enjoying increasing demand. Unlike the Poggio al Granchio, which is aged in new French 300-litre barriques, this wine is aged in large 30- and 50-hectolitre Slavonian oak barrels.
It is a wine with a lower alcohol content, bright orange-ruby colour, with very fine and almost imperceptible tannins, with a floral nose of citrus notes, myrtle and fresh cherries. It is a Brunello of great richness and balance, and also has a very pleasant lightness, well-contoured acidity and a salty, mineral finish. SUPERIORE.DE
"Appetising berry-herb nose; juicy in the mouth with plenty of polish and a lovely final on notes of wild berries and balsamic nuances. Makes you want more." Vinum
"Multi-layered aroma with ripe cherries, dried red flowers, violets, iron. Very linear and tightly woven on the palate, but with a super mature, complex tannic structure that embraces the wine fully and energetically, very grippy and vertically oriented with lively acidity and vibrant final." Weinwisser
"Powerful, bright ruby. Very clear and precise nose, fragrant, of ripe dark cherries, cardamom in the background. Very much juicy fruit on the palate, opens with well-integrated, fine-meshed tannin, round and smooth, fine salty components in the final." Falstaff
"Just mid ruby. Perfumed cherry and oak nose with a hint of coffee bean. Elegant and vibrant cherry and raspberry palate, yet with great depth. Fresh, nervy and long with coating tannins adding more depth to the fruit on the finish." Jancis Robinson
"Forest-floor, camphor, wild-berry and toasted nut aromas lead the way. Elegantly structured, the linear palate offers dried cherry, blood orange, star anise and hazelnut framed in close-grained tannins." Wine Enthusiast
"This starts out with pronounced iron and graphite aromas and flavors, wrapped around a beam of black cherry and black currant fruit. Earth, tobacco and wild herb accents get swept up in the dense, dusty tannins on the finish." Wine Spectator
"Crushed gravel and dried earth on the nose with intense layers of mushrooms, dried oysters and potpourri. Dried flowers and grapefruit peel. It's full-bodied with refined tannins and a long, elegant finish. Quite tight. Juicy and savory at the end." James Suckling
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 24/6 months tonneau/concrete tank
- Development: wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,39 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,00 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,72 g/l
- Sulfite: 34 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,36
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2045+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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A perfectly trimmed avenue of cypresses frames the historic winery, founded in 1969 on a piece of farmland and owned by the famous Angelini family since 1994. Val di Suga is one of the few wineries whose unique status in Montalcino is defined by exceptional Brunello site wines. A meticulous production philosophy reigns here, clearly expressing the stylistics of the vineyards located both north and south of the hill town. The estate covers 51 hectares, all planted with Sangiovese Grosso.
The three hillside sites, with diverse soils, exposures, altitudes and their climatic conditions, produce three completely different interpretations of Sangiovese, testifying to the oenological uniqueness of the winery. We are talking about the three cru wines Vigna del Lago, Poggio al Granchio and Vigna Spuntali. The former owes its name to a nearby lake that provides an exceptionally mild and cool microclimate. Located northeast of Montalcino, the vines grow on the oldest vineyards of the winery on a predominantly clay soil. Poggio del Granchio refers to the second site wine, whose grapes are harvested near Sant'Antimo, southeast of Montalcino. The slate soil there, called Galestro, is considered one of the best soils anywhere for growing Sangiovese. The third cru, Vigna Spuntali, comes from a southwestern vineyard with skeletal, limestone bedrock from the area around Sant'Angelo in Colle. The area has a very typical Mediterranean climate due to its proximity to the sea, which gives particular strength to the wines.
The grapes from each vineyard are processed quite individually in terms of harvest date, fermentation temperature, maceration and aging time. Finally, for the basic Brunello di Montalcino and Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, all three vineyards are blended together, creating a unique balance of structure and elegance.
The enormous territorial diversity of the growing area is thus clearly in the foreground at Val di Suga: the noble Sangiovese grape variety is known to be particularly sensitive to different soils. The diverse flavor profiles show how the grape variety develops in very different ways depending on the subsoil and microclimate, and so each site Brunello tells its own story.
"The three different sites are our strength," reports farm manager Andrea Lonardi, who has been in charge of Val di Suga since 2012 and, together with oenologist Pietro Riccobono, has designed this territorial vision. The wines follow in their making the classic, traditional Brunello style, which in addition has a contemporary and high quality character. Not without reason they are among the most sought-after Brunello wines in the world. SUPERIORE.DE
Facts
- Year of foundation: 1969
- Owner: Bertani Domains (Angelini Family)
- Oenologist: Pietro Riccobono and Andrea Lonardi
- Annual production: approx. 160,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 51 hectares
- Conventional cultivation