Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Pianrosso [wood] 2019 NO20230712 Familiar black cherry and cocoa

Familiar black cherry and cocoa sit right next to flavors you won't quite be able to place

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In 1975 Sergio Rossi bought a farmhouse and six and a half hectares of vines from Tedina Biondi-Santi — daughter of the family that effectively invented Brunello — and renamed the place La Gerla

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Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Pianrosso [wood] 2019 NO20230712 Familiar black cherry and cocoaCiacci Piccolomini only makes this Riserva in the years that truly earn it, and 2019 in Montalcino was one of those years. It comes off the estate's Pianrosso cru down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, where iron rich red soils give the wine its name and a deep, mineral backbone. This is traditional Brunello through and through, all Sangiovese, hand picked, and given years in big Slavonian oak casks rather than flashy new barrels. The result is dark and