2010 Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, San Giuseppe, Stella di Campalto, Tuscany, Italy
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Sangiovese
Ready - youthful
Product: 20108006000
Description
Stella fawns over her wines, each vintage a ‘new child’, not wishing to let them out of her sight until she’s satisfied they’ll cope! Hence 2010 has become a Riserva, to be physically released out into the world, ripping it from her grasp (!) only in early 2016.
However Stella has given us the opportunity to offer the 2010 Riserva out, providing our customers can wait. I would: just its colour fills you with warm anticipation: broad, compact, serene, red garnet, from rim to rim, filling the glass. On the nose it’s composed, with noticeable crystalline aromas that surely stem from her mix of galestro, calcite, volcanic, alberese and alluvial soils.
There’s gunpowder, graphite presence; a mass of emphatic herbal, red berried fruit, along with a coiled, juicy heart of cranberry/strawberry ‘gelato’ (ice cream!) flavours. Immense focus, with beautiful refreshing juiciness. Not a hair out of place!
David Berry Green
However Stella has given us the opportunity to offer the 2010 Riserva out, providing our customers can wait. I would: just its colour fills you with warm anticipation: broad, compact, serene, red garnet, from rim to rim, filling the glass. On the nose it’s composed, with noticeable crystalline aromas that surely stem from her mix of galestro, calcite, volcanic, alberese and alluvial soils.
There’s gunpowder, graphite presence; a mass of emphatic herbal, red berried fruit, along with a coiled, juicy heart of cranberry/strawberry ‘gelato’ (ice cream!) flavours. Immense focus, with beautiful refreshing juiciness. Not a hair out of place!
David Berry Green
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2010
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer San Giuseppe, Tuscany
About this wine
Sangiovese
A black grape widely grown in Central Italy and the main component of Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano as well as being the sole permitted grape for the famed Brunello di Montalcino.
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San Giuseppe, Tuscany
Run by the talented Stella di Campalto, the 6 hectare San Giuseppe wine estate in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, is strewn with several soil types (volcanic, iron-rich, galestro, clay...). It was originally planted in 1992, became organic in 1996 and then biodynamic in 2002. Great attention is paid to harvesting the parcels of vines separately in order to capture the maximum fruit quality and soil expression, using gravity and a combination of large 38hl Austrian oak barrels and French oak barriques to vinify the juice as gently as possible. All her fruit qualifies as Brunello di Montalcino, yet in 2003 she chose to declassify everything to Rosso di Montalcino; her inaugural Brunello has been released in 2009 for the 2004 vintage.
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