Cerbaiona Rosso di Montalcino 2016 750ml (750ml)

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Producer	Cerbaiona
Country	Italy
Region	Toscana
Varietal	Sangiovese (Grosso)
Vintage	2016
Sku	RD10451
Size	750ml

 

Christopher Deas, Italian Wine Merchants: "How do you challenge what was accomplished in the ripe vintage of 2015? How about the classic 2016. It is a new chapter at this fabled Montalcino address, and it is one to watch. Diego Molinari is no longer seeing the operations, but the privileged vineyard site and historic estate is in good hands. And in 2016, the wine captures the structure of the more classic vintage. In fact, the wine begins big and explosive, but with marked acidity. With aeration, and time, the wine settles and integrates showcasing an almost creamy texture of rich fruit but balanced by some underlying precision. You can expect to find nuances of red and black fruit here highlighted by dark cherries, wild berries, plums, herbs, baked earth, and minerality. I know everyone is focused on the 2016 Brunello, but this get us excited about Rosso again, just as the Salvioni Rosso did in 2018. This is a true, grand cru-like Baby Brunello from the cult producer Cerbaiona and the

A former Alitalia pilot, Cerbaiona's Diego Molinari chose neighbor Franco Biondi-Santi as his role model when he founded his seven-acre Montalcino estate in the '70s, using vine clippings from Biondi-Santi's vineyards and adopting the master's traditional methods to craft concentrated, mineral-laden wines. Diego believed in honest wines of terroir and letting the grapes speak for themselves to create structured, deeply nuanced, traditional Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino. After almost four decades of winemaking, Diego sold his estate to an investment group in 2015, and now helmed by Gary Rieschel and Matthew Fioretti, Cerbaiona continues to craft traditional, evocative wines that are yet more age-worthy, precise and beautiful. Rieschel and Fioretti have made moves to up Cerbiaona's already impressive game--taking the vineyards wholly organic, replanting vines with a higher density and site-specific clones, creating a cru vineyard out of what had once been an olive grove, and implement