Tasting Notes: 100% Sangiovese Grosso. The winery’s Colline dei Vigneti 8-hectare hillside vineyard, at the foot of Mount Castellare, is one of the most prestigious areas for Brunello. Its soils, created in different geological eras, are limestone, marl schists and clay. Manual harvest at peakripeness. Alcoholic fermentation with controlled temperature (26°C) for about 10-12 days on the skins. Malolactic fermentation in steel vats. Refining in 2500 litre Slavonian oak barrels for 30 months and in 225 litre French oak barrels for 20 months. Further refining in bottles for 4 months before the sale. Really powerful for the vintage, with plenty of ripe fruit and cedary new wood, yet balanced and pretty. Full-bodied, with polished tannins and a long finish. Needs a year or two to come completely together. Best after 2011.