2013 saw a classic vintage in Toscana, and Livio Sassetti Pertimali’s ’13 Brunello is a stunner that embodies the elegant lines and sweeping structure that characterize the year. Balsamic herbs, forest floor, pressed violet petals, fresh earth, and a touch of blood orange frame this wine’s pure, succulent red and blue fruits. Fine-grained tannins and electric acidity animate the palate of this full-bodied wine that shows terrific focus and structure. While you can enjoy this wine now with generous decanting, a few years in the cellar will elicit its true beauty. Deriving from the estate's southeastern-facing vineyards on Montosoli hill in Brunello's northern subzone, the biodynamically grown grapes for this Brunello ferment in temperature-controlled stainless steel, and the wine ages first in botti and then in bottle before release.
- Country: Italy
- Region: Toscana
- Sub Region/Classification: Brunello di Montalcino
The Sassetti family has been farming for many generations, and winemaking has long been not only a means to their livelihood but a passion. Livio Sassetti inherited this tradition, but he wanted to make his own mark in the wine world, so in the early 1970's he followed his ambition to Montalcino, where he purchased land in Montosoli and founded the Pertimali estate, named for a cottage on the property. Dedicated to the primacy of the northern Montalcino terroir of Montosoli, the Sassetti estate employs biodynamic agriculture and traditional winemaking, including fermenting only with indigenous yeasts and aging in giant botti. Today, the 39-acre estate rests in the hands of Livio and his sons, Lorenzo and Luciano, who join him in the production of elegant, complex, and aromatic wines that hold the structure of Burgundy and the distinctive Montalcino terroir.
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