Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino

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Wine Description

Poggio di Sotto is known in Montalcino for its unique parcel of old Sangiovese vineyards (more than 50 years old), in which there have been identified 120 Sangiovese biotypes through a study managed by the University of Florence. This biodiversity produces the characteristic brightness and complexity that is found in Poggio di Sotto wines.

Tasting as part of a short vertical at the estate, the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino sports a bright ruby color and is aromatic with notes of cranberries, orange oils, fresh spice, anise and crushed stones. The palate is beautifully pure, with raspberry notes, a linear feel, and wonderful elegance as well as fine tannins and a long, graceful finish. This more elegant and Burgundian vintage is showing beautifully today and can be enjoyed over the coming 20 years. — Jeb Dunnuck, Jan 2025

The Poggio di Sotto 2018 Brunello di Montalcino has a core of bright cherry fruit and baking spice that is surrounded by a ferrous note of iron ore or rust that is almost salty in taste. That metallic or saline quality plays out beautifully across abundant dark berry fruit. The wine is quite immediate and up front, but when you compare it to a cooler vintage like 2013, you see just how generous and full the bouquet is at this young age. That's a nice trait to have. — Wine Advocate, Nov 2024

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Production area/appellation:

Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

Soil composition

clay gravel and limestone

Training method

Cordon Spur-pruned

Elevation:

660-985-1,480 feet

Exposure:

Various

Year vineyard planted:

1960-2000

Harvest time:

September

First vintage of this wine:

1991

Bottles produced of this wine:

35,000

Average Vine Age:

35 years

Maceration length:

Varietal composition:

100% Sangiovese

Fermentation container:

Barrels

Length of alcoholic fermentation:

15 days

Fermentation temperature:

75-86 °F

Maceration technique:

Pumpovers and Aeration

Malolactic fermentation:

Full

Fining agent:

no fining

Type of aging container:

Barrels

Size of aging container:

30 hl

Type of oak:

Slavonian

Length of aging before bottling:

42 months

Age of Aging Container:

10 years average

Length of bottle aging:

6 months

Total SO2

pH level:

3.58

Acidity:

5.29 g/L

Alcohol:

14 %

Dry extract:

30 g/L

Total SO2

Residual sugar:

1.1 g/L

The fermentation initiates spontaneously in truncated oak vats where it continues unabated for at least thirty days, on average. Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino rests in 30hl Slavonian oak casks for 42 months, which is nearly twice the DOCG's requirement for aging in oak (24 months for Brunello). The finished wine is bottled unfiltered.

Poggio di Sotto's Brunello is sourced by parcels at 200, 300 and 450 meters with various exposures. The soil at Poggio di Sotto is poor and stony, comprising mainly clay and limestone.

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