Colleoni, Brunello di Montalcino ’Santa Maria’ Riserva 2019

A very rare Brunello with 2000-3000 bottles a year. High-toned, Burgundian character. Opens with crushed wild red berries, sour cherry, rose petals, dried violets, blood orange zest, and underlying notes of crushed rock, juniper, and leather. Weightless, vibrant, and precise. Deceptively powerful acidity carries flavours of redcurrant, menthol, and iron-like minerality. Ultrafine, chalky, fine-grained tannins. It exhibits zero modern oak extraction, prioritizing purity, transparent terroir expression, and lingering salinity over sheer volume.