La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 EGLY24 not standard oak

not standard oak

Silky and aromatic

bought from the traditional farmers who have been working this dry

then aged ten months in neutral barrels

La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 EGLY24 not standard oakCollectors chase La Gerla's Vigna gli Angeli. Insiders quietly buy La Pieve. It comes from a single vineyard planted in 1997 down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, in Montalcino's warm southern sector a very different animal from the estate's cooler Canalicchio home base, and the source of its most brooding, powerful Brunello. The 2021 is dark and dense without ever turning clumsy: violet and eucalyptus lift floating over forest berry, new leather and dark