Brunello di Montalcino “Madonna del Piano” Riserva DOCG 2020

Valdicava | Tuscany
Valdicava Vincenzo Abbruzzese | Loc. Valdicava | IT 53024 Montalcino

09652320 · 0,75 l · 265,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Limitation of 3 articles per customer

There are wines that have invented a category. Madonna del Piano was one of the very first single-vineyard Brunelli ever produced – long before the appellation had a formal language for the concept of cru, long before other houses started bottling their best parcels separately. Vincenzo Abbruzzese's grandfather had bought the estate in 1953; Vincenzo himself turned a small vineyard parcel in Montosoli into what James Suckling described as "one of the great wines of Tuscany, if not Italy". The Madonna del Piano parcel is located in the heart of the Valdicava vineyards, at 350 metres in the northern Montosoli zone, on soil rich in galestro and limestone, which gives the Sangiovese Grosso a mineral austerity and floral depth that is not found in warmer locations in Montalcino. Organic cultivation without chemical intervention for generations. Yield reduced to the absolute minimum. Every berry counts.

The vinification follows the principles that have defined the house for decades: long maceration, exclusively large Slavonian oak barrels – 48 months for the Riserva, 12 more than for the Annata-Brunello, each year well beyond the legal minimum. Then a long period of bottle ageing before the wine leaves the estate. Only around 800 cases – an extraordinarily small quantity for a Brunello of this importance.

2020 was a powerful vintage in Montalcino: hot summer, dry growing season, concentrated, dense grapes with small berries. In the cool Montosoli microclimate, the heat loses its dominance – the soil retains its freshness. The result is a Madonna del Piano of dark intensity and simultaneous elegance, which carries the character of the vintage without abandoning it. Deep, clear ruby red colour with garnet glints. Dark cherry, plum jam, black truffles, leather, tobacco, sandalwood, a hint of lavender and balsam on the nose – complex, multi-layered, with a depth that only slowly reveals itself. Full-bodied on the palate, with tannins of extraordinary finesse, long persistence and a final that ends in clarity and intensity. SUPERIORE.DE