La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 spirits-template Dark fruit—black cherry

Dark fruit—black cherry

Bourbon aged at sea

This was the first one

and discover why certain crus age differently than others

La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 spirits-template Dark fruit—black cherryCollectors chase La Gerla's Vigna gli Angeli. Insiders quietly buy La Pieve. It comes from a single vineyard planted in 1997 down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, in Montalcino's warm southern sector a very different animal from the estate's cooler Canalicchio home base, and the source of its most brooding, powerful Brunello. The 2021 is dark and dense without ever turning clumsy: violet and eucalyptus lift floating over forest berry, new leather and dark