La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 spirits-template preserving acidity and enhancing ageability

preserving acidity and enhancing ageability

Dark fruit—black cherry

Mike Lucia put some in the ground at Cole Ranch

This debut vintage from the duo of Damien Courbet and David Croix—two enology school friends who reunited to make Jura wines—captures lightning in a bottle

and refreshing blend of 95% Pineau d’aunis and 5% Grolleau

La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 spirits-template preserving acidity and enhancing ageabilityCollectors 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