Talenti

Talenti was founded in 1980 by Pierluigi 'Piero' Talenti, the Romagna-born oenologist who had managed Il Poggione since 1959 and who is widely credited as one of the architects of modern Brunello. When he left to start his own estate, Il Poggione let him buy the Pian di Conte podere south of Montalcino near Sant'Angelo in Colle, and that single-vineyard name still anchors the top of the range. The estate is now in its third generation under Pierluigi's grandson Riccardo Talenti, who has continued his grandfather's clonal selection work and the house's traditional-modern hybrid style: temperature-controlled stainless fermentation, then long ageing split between large Slavonian botti and a minority share of French tonneaux. The estate Brunello and a Pian di Conte Riserva form the core of a Sangiovese-focused lineup grown on the warmer, lower-altitude southern side of the appellation.