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Brunello di Montalcino Bassolino di Sopra

VARIETALS
100% Sangiovese

NOTES
FARMING: Certified biodynamic

SOIL: Clayey, calcareous and rich in rock fragments.

VINEYARD: Sourced from the upper part of the Bassolino vineyard, a south-southwest facing parcel at at 390m in elevation. Vines planted on well weathered but relatively poor soil with limestone deposits, and iron-rich Mediterranean red soil.

VINIFICATION:  Like every year, the grapes were selected grape by grape and berry by berry in the vineyard and then found their way to the cellar in small boxes of 15kg. After careful destemming, berries were thoroughly inspected once more on the sorting table, separating the choice berries from dried
or overripe ones and from leaves, stalks and insects. Once in the barrel for vinification, the fermentation began only after three or four days. Spontaneous fermentation caused by the grapes’ inherent yeast. The must macerated a bit more than 4 weeks before the young wine was transferred into a 40 hl Slavonian oak cask where it matured for 55 months. The malolactic fermentation took effect immediately after the alcoholic fermentation still in the fermentation vat. Neither artificial yeast or bacteria nor any other enzymatic or technological additives were used during the whole process of transformation of the wine in order to maintain the authentic and characteristic taste of the vineyards.