Aged for 36 months in oak barrels. Deep with ripe plums, strawberries, cloves, violet, balsam herbs and white smoke. Intense and elegant on the palate with a vibrant acidity and refined tannins. It will need 5 to years to be truly enjoyed.
Producer description:
Founded in 1989 by Piero Palmucci, Poggio di Sotto is a benchmark for classic Brunello lovers. The wines need time to reveal themselves, but they are definitely worth the wait. The estate is split into three vineyards. The rocky marl and galestro adds minerality to the wines while they clay soils rich in iron produce highly concentrated flavours.
Style:
Still Red
Vintage:
2020
Dryness:
Dry
Size:
75cl
Delivery:
2025 May
Available:
3
Critic Scores
Decanter | 95
Winemaker Leonardo Berti is among those who compare 2020 to 2018. As such, he aerated gently with pump-overs and kept skin maceration to 35 days to avoid over extraction. Aromas are piercing and precise as this opens with orange and grapefruit rind, flint and freshly ground pepper. There is a gorgeous transparency of redcurrant and raspberry, while bergamot adds inner perfume. Although fuller than 2018, the 2020 is unequivocally elegantly weighted, with almost a delicateness to the structure, yet those fine-grained tannins persist. Appetising and buoyant, it trails off leisurely with lavender and thyme.
Robert Parker | 97+
Very much still a baby at the time of my tasting, the Poggio di Sotto 2020 Brunello di Montalcino shares many similarities with the epic 2016 vintage in terms of its pretty perfumes and polished length. However, this elegant wine does not have the same sheer inner power. This bottle ultimately offers a fresh and charming interpretation of Sangiovese. This is a delicate wine with floral aromas, wild rose, crushed stone and white cherry. Aged in large Slavonian oak casks, it requires more time to flesh out. Harvest started the last week of August and finished the first week of October, which represents a conscious decision to start picking earlier than most. The vineyards are planted on schistic galestro soils, and that territorial imprint comes through strongly in all of these wines. I love that refreshing hint of lemon rind or navel orange at the very end.
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