La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 CS20230713 10% Grolleau blend ferments spontaneously

10% Grolleau blend ferments spontaneously in concrete with indigenous yeasts

with rich notes of honey

Petit Meslier

and Beaumont's 'Jackals River' bottling is the quiet rebuttal

La Gerla Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve 2021 CS20230713 10% Grolleau blend ferments spontaneouslyCollectors 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