Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 MENU and a sweet-toasty butteriness on

and a sweet-toasty butteriness on the nose

and delicious—Calabria as it should be

Star Lane Vineyard offers the classical austerity that defines serious Cabernet: pure aromas of maraschino cherry

The town of Akashi

Pertimali is his obsession—vineyards in the northern Montosoli zone

Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 MENU and a sweet-toasty butteriness onThe 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