Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 NO20231018 and delicate spice from oak

and delicate spice from oak aging

It's 50% direct press chardonnay blended with 50% skin contact chardonnay

and aged in old oak with minimal sulfur

The Queen of Swords cuvee leans orange-adjacent: textural

Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 NO20231018 and delicate spice from oakThe hill of Montosoli, just north of Montalcino, is about as close as Tuscany gets to a grand cru, and Livio Sassetti bought a piece of it back in the late 1970s. Pertimali sits high and cool on limestone rich soil, which is why this Brunello has a freshness and precision that a lot of Montalcino, chasing power, has lost. The Sassettis are unrepentant traditionalists: three years in big Slavonian casks, no shortcuts. Lorenzo Sassetti runs the estate