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Stella di Campalto
Brunello di Montalcino Bosco
2018
4.7
Region
Italy › Toscana › Montalcino › Brunello di Montalcino DOCG
Type
red · still
Grapes
Sangiovese
Alcohol
14%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
0.6 g/L
Available at
- Goodwine
- Wine Bureau#S0304
Tasting Notes(2)
4.7
Nuanced and patient. The bouquet opens on cherry confiture and dark chocolate liqueur candies with cherry filling, then deepens into chorizo, leather, underbrush, and red flowers - the kind of aromatic arc that rewards sitting with the glass rather than dissecting it. Super delicate on the palate, the tannin slightly dry, the structure and balance superb; acidity isn't high but the wine never reads heavy, and the finish runs long and warm, closing on milk chocolate, raspberry, and a flicker of peony. A charmer in the strongest sense - a wine that begs to be drunk in volume but rewards you for slowing down. Despite the intensity, it still floats - airy, pillowy, the kind of Brunello that quietly settles the argument about why this house sits where it does.
About
Bosco is one of Stella di Campalto's site-named Brunello cuvées from her Podere San Giuseppe estate in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, near the Abbey of Sant'Antimo. The blend draws from four south- and southwest-facing plots - Bosco, San Giuseppe, Ulivo and Curva - between 210 and 290 metres on a property with twelve distinct soil types. Fermentation is spontaneous in small wooden vats of 20 to 40 hectolitres with no pied de cuve, followed by around 34 months in 15-17 hectolitre casks and roughly 30 months in bottle. Farming has been organic since 1996 and biodynamic since 2002, with output across all Brunello bottlings only around 14,000 bottles.
