La Gerla, Brunello di Montalcino Riserva gli Angeli, 2012 October_Reductions riper wines than their Ovello

riper wines than their Ovello bottling

This isn’t rustic Taurasi

giving it structure without overwhelming the wine’s lifted

then spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel with only indigenous yeast — no oak

La Gerla, Brunello di Montalcino Riserva gli Angeli, 2012 October_Reductions riper wines than their OvelloThis is Sangiovese off land that used to be Biondi Santi's: when Tancredi Biondi Santi's holdings were divided among his children in the early 1970s, one daughter sold her inheritance to a Milanese advertising executive named Sergio Rossi, and it became La Gerla. Gli Angeli is the estate's first cru and the source of its Riserva just over two hectares of the oldest vines on the Canalicchio slope, planted from 1965, on lean marl and limestone soil