Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 SCCOS on the same hillside

on the same hillside

Flora Springs' Holiday Cabernet from 2003 showcases the ripe

founder of the Loire's riotous La Dive Bouteille festival

The result is medium-bodied and bright

Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 SCCOS on the same hillsideThe hill of Montosoli, just north of Montalcino, is about as close as Tuscany gets to a grand cru, and Livio Sassetti bought a piece of it back in the late 1970s. Pertimali sits high and cool on limestone rich soil, which is why this Brunello has a freshness and precision that a lot of Montalcino, chasing power, has lost. The Sassettis are unrepentant traditionalists: three years in big Slavonian casks, no shortcuts. Lorenzo Sassetti runs the estate