UCCELLIERA ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023 Italy violet florals

violet florals

and savory olive tapenade flavors framed by muscular but fine-grained tannins

500 bottles from two and a half hectares

with vines up to 100 years old

a secondary maturation that develops additional wood sugars without the aggressive char

UCCELLIERA ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023 Italy violet floralsIn 1986, Andrea Cortonesi bought the Uccelliera estate from Ciacci Piccolomini and built one of Montalcino's most respected small producers from the ground up. His vineyards in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, Montalcino's southeast corner, sit at 150350 meters on clay, sand, and iron rich soils under practicing organic farming. Fruit comes exclusively from Brunello designated plots, cold macerated and fermented with native yeasts over 2530 days before oak