La Torre Brunello di Montalcino 2012

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Vintage
2012

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750ML

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Ruby red with garnet tints. Delicate nose with touches of woodland fruit and berries, tobacco and sandalwood. The right balance between the fragrances of the Sangiovese and the tannins of the oak.

Professional Ratings

  • 94
    With each passing vintage, I am reassured by how instinctively my palate connects with this wine. If you are an enthusiast of classic, streamlined and traditional Sangiovese, the La Torre 2012 Brunello di Montalcino is a heartfelt homecoming. That steady and studious approach has yielded impressive results in this hot growing season. The wine's success speaks to the understanding and experience of the vineyard and winery teams that created this beauty. Like other wines from the vintage, this expression opens to a dark and saturated color. The fruit is bold and succulent, but La Torre delivers that characteristic acidic kick that gets our attention and keeps our taste buds activated.
    Rating: 94+

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La Torre

Azienda Agricola La Torre

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Azienda Agricola La Torre, Italy
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The La Torre winery was founded in 1976 by Giuseppe Anania, who purchased the La Torre estate from the Ciacci family of Montalcino. Until a few years earlier, the estate had been worked as a farm by sharecroppers, with livestock, cherry trees, wheat and mixed olive trees and vines. The local country people described the La Torre Estate as a hillside area known for its vipers, mushrooms, oil and elegant wine with an intense bouquet.

There was a large farmhouse on the top of the hill, surrounded by a wilderness of brambles, broom and ilex trees. Giuseppe planted the first vineyard, two and a half hectares in area, in 1976, and then in 1999 his son planted another three hectares, so now the vineyard totals about five and a half hectares and it surrounds the house on the south and west.

The house, where a family of eighteen used to live in the sharecroppers’ time, includes the cellars where the grapes are processed and the wines are aged. When Giuseppe first came to Montalcino, there was a popular legend concerning the name "la torre". It was said that beside the farmhouse there used to stand a tower belonging to the Sassetti family, who owned the hillside estate before the Ciacci family. According to the legend, one branch of the Sassetti family discovered gold in the foundations of the tower and decided to demolish the entire building and flee to Florence with their findings. There is a street called Lungarno Sassetti in Florence, but no one knows if there is any links to the Sassetti’s who ran away from Montalcino, or whether the tower with its gold really once stood where there is now a Brunello vineyard.

In 1976, when Giuseppe planted the first vineyard, Montalcino was still a farming community and Brunello di Montalcino wine was only known to a few great connoisseurs. Then in the Eighties the media started to treat wine, previously just another form of agricultural produce, as a media product, and Brunello became a famous name with many consumers. Those were the years of the rise to fame of large Brunello producers, who launched their wines onto the Italian and foreign markets, gaining visibility through the media circus. Giuseppe came here just before the start of a major transformation process, which affected not only the conversion of wine from an agricultural product to a media phenomenon but also the adoption of new scientific techniques in wine-making, and the introduction of the first IT methods into wineries.

The estate management policy, which was agreed upon by Giuseppe and his son, was to combine the techniques his son had learnt from his degree in agriculture from Florence University with the knowledge of a number of old farmers who cultivated their vines and made their wines with enthusiasm and meticulous care. The decision to maintain contact with the traditional farmers was the key to remaining in touch with the surrounding territory and to produce wines of local character with a strong bond to the land where they originated.

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Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.

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Montalcino Wine

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Famous for its bold, layered and long-lived red, Brunello di Montalcino, the town of Montalcino is about 70 miles south of Florence, and has a warmer and drier climate than that of its neighbor, Chianti. The Sangiovese grape is king here, as it is in Chianti, but Montalcino has its own clone called Brunello.

The Brunello vineyards of Montalcino blanket the rolling hills surrounding the village and fan out at various elevations, creating the potential for Brunello wines expressing different styles. From the valleys, where deeper deposits of clay are found, come wines typically bolder, more concentrated and rich in opulent black fruit. The hillside vineyards produce wines more concentrated in red fruits and floral aromas; these sites reach up to over 1,600 feet and have shallow soils of rocks and shale.

Brunello di Montalcino by law must be aged a minimum of four years, including two years in barrel before realease and once released, typically needs more time in bottle for its drinking potential to be fully reached. The good news is that Montalcino makes a “baby brother” version. The wines called Rosso di Montalcino are often made from younger vines, aged for about a year before release, offer extraordinary values and are ready to drink young.

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