Five litres, more than six and a half bottles under a single cork, from the five-star 2019 vintage. The largest format the estate has made of this wine, and we have one.
Deep ruby with garnet edges. The nose gives cherry and small red woodland fruits, liquorice and spice, with wild flowers and savoury herbs behind. On the palate the wine carries more weight and concentration than a Rosso usually does: refined at the attack, full and suave through the middle, with tannins tending towards velvet. From five litres everything is still young — the fruit leads, the structure clearly holds back. This format asks for years, or else for a decanter and half a day's patience. Serve it around 17 degrees, at a table that truly makes an occasion of it.
In Montalcino, grandparents call their granddaughters potazzine, after the small, brightly coloured birds of the Tuscan countryside. That is what their grandmother called Viola and Sofia, the daughters of owner Gigliola Giannetti — and the estate grew in step with them: Viola was born in 1993, the founding year, and when Sofia arrived in 1996 two more hectares took the total to five.
The Rosso here is no by-product. Almost half the Brunello production is declassified into Rosso: the same vineyards, the same wild yeasts, the same forty-day fermentation — only twelve months in the large Slavonian casks instead of nearly four years. Unfiltered, like everything here.
Five hectares, 35,000 bottles a year, and a handful of those in this format. A Rosso di Montalcino does not get rarer.
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