2019 Brunello di Montalcino, Scopetone, Tuscany, Italy

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2019 Brunello di Montalcino, Scopetone, Tuscany, ItalyThis is a careful selection from the Scarnacuoia vineyard, with the oldest vines planted in 1979. The ancient soils here are rich with volcanic influence and large fossilised shells lending enchanting complexity and mineral bite to the final wines. The wine spends 36 months in large 33hl Pauscha botti, before 6 months resting in bottle. The wine is poised with great structural tension, whilst the glassy, red cherry and red berry fruit is generous and

though I might leave it another couple of years

It's far from it

this is a complex

Paul Keating

or another 4-5 years

Our wines have the Protestant style – vigour

2 hectares here: one parcel at the bottom of the top section of Charmes is divided by the road from another at the top of the bottom section

Vargellas is located in the hotter eastern sector and it is significant that the selected grapes were farmed on the higher terraces

The detailed

There’s so much beneath it all

Showing real purity

While we would usually try to avoid this