Poggio di Sotto Rosso di Montalcino

In the glass

Aroma: red cherry, rose petal, dried herbs, tobacco

Palate: sour cherry, iron, leather, Mediterranean scrub

A Rosso di Montalcino in Brunello clothing: same southeastern fruit and Slavonian-cask discipline, shorter wood, brighter cherry and earlier accessibility.

What it pairs with

• Pici al ragu di cinghiale
  Hand-rolled pici with boar ragu lands cleanly on the wine's leather-and-cherry profile.
• Roast lamb with rosemary
  Lamb fat and rosemary meet the wine's medium tannin and herbal lift.
• Aged pecorino with chestnut honey
  Sheep's-milk salt sharpens the wine's sour-cherry brightness.

History

Poggio di Sotto's Rosso di Montalcino is bottled to the same exacting standards as the Brunello, drawn from the same Castelnuovo dell'Abate fruit but aged on a shorter timeline. Often cited as one of the most cellar-worthy Rosso DOC wines in Montalcino.

1. 1991 — First Poggio di Sotto Rosso di Montalcino vintage

Facts

Producer

Poggio di Sotto

Grapes

Sangiovese Grosso (100%)

Classification

Rosso di Montalcino DOC

Oak

Around 24 months in large Slavonian oak casks

ABV

13.5%

Price

EUR 55 to 90 at retail

Drinking window

3 to 12 from vintage

First vintage

1991

Scores

• Wine Advocate 93 (2020 vintage, reviewed 2022)
• Vinous 93 (2020 vintage, reviewed 2022)

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