Brunello di Montalcino is certainly one of the world’s best known and best loved wines. It is a red wine with a lengthy aging period, extraordinarily sophisticated and full bodied.
Region: Toscana
Appellation: Brunello di Montalcino DOCG
Grape Variety: Sangiovese Grosso
Vintage: 2013
Altitude: 300m above sea level
Harvest period: from September 20th to October 15th
Vinification: The grapes were harvested and pressed, then the fermentation process takes place. The grape skins and the must fermentation lasts about 20 days. Racked off the wine is stored in containers in tempered rooms, in order to help the malolactic fermentation.
Refinement: up to 36 months, a part in Slavonian oak barrels and a part in French oak barrique.
Bottle ageing: up to 6 months before selling the wine on the market.
Tasting Notes:
Bright ruby red, tending to garnet with aging. Bouquets of cherry, plum and spices. Full bodied, lively acidity with flavors of red fruits. Fresh and long aftertaste. Long aging potential wine.
Food Pairings:
Ideal match with grilled or stewed red meat, game, seasoned cheeses.
Service Temperature:
18°C. It requires being decanted.
The Martoccia history starts from far away. We have some news about Martoccia as farm and land in 1300. Here is what can be read in the parchment papers of the Convent of Sant'Agostino in which the vineyards of Martoccia are the subject of notarial acts and trade.
Michele di Micheluccio (...) gives to Fra Scolaio for payment of the sum appointed above, a vineyard situated in Montalcino in the district called Martoccia.
We find Martoccia also in 1500: : in the historical narrative written by "Giovanni Moglio da Montalcino", Egidio Assunto Brigidi citing a manuscript by Marcoantonio Rigaccini "Chronicle" of the middle 1500 writes: Renai and Martoccia the two vineyards for the best Brunello di Montalcino.
