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Donatella Cinelli Colombini Brunello di Montalcino Prime Donne 2019
Tuscany, ItalyMontalcino’s Casato Prime Donne comprises 40 organic hectares, with 16 planted to Sangiovese. There is also a modern, artistic, fresco-filled winery and ageing facility for the Rosso and Brunello di Montalcino wines. The entire staff is female, including the head winemaker, and Donatella has become a beacon for women in the wine industry, not only in Italy but globally. Donatella noticed that wine critics for the Italian wine guides were all men. She decided then to unite a small group of talented women wine professionals, asking them to blind taste future Brunello from different barrels and to select the best lots. Donatella considers this result, the Brunello Prime Donne, the flagship for her wineries. Sangiovese from the clay-limestone Ardita Vineyard surrounding the winery at 250m was handpicked and fermented on skins for 15 days in stainless and unlined concrete. It was then moved to 5-7hl French tonneaux before finishing in traditional 15-40hl oak barrels from Slavonia for 2.5 years. Prior to being bottled unfiltered, the wine rested in unlined concrete vats. Prime Donne is a powerful Brunello destined for a long ageing. Fragrant wild cherry and raspberry flow through this graceful, structural wine, layered with medicinal cassis, leather, balsam, and crushed stones. Tannins are long and finely firm, well integrated into the lifted, stony fruit, and guide this to a lingering scrubby herb finish. Quite special, and from the lauded 2019 vintage, this is drinking beautifully now and with time ahead in your cellar.Tasted: 11 September 2024Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| ON | $129.00 | 750ml | consignment |
Le Sommelier Inc.
Grape: Sangiovese
