Le Ragnaie, Brunello di Montalcino Passo del lume Spento, 2021 so052925 pato family wines wild plums

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The 2023 vintage captures the estate’s signature precision—racy acidity

Guy Méa’s L’Assemblage is everything we love about grower Champagne—estate-farmed fruit

almost velvety texture that still carries a refined backbone

The Rocca brothers take a strictly hands-off approach: native yeasts

Le Ragnaie, Brunello di Montalcino Passo del lume Spento, 2021 so052925 pato family wines wild plumsAt 621 meters, Passo del Lume Spento (lights outso windy the locals candles blow out) is Montalcinos highest vineyard, a designation that only recently became possible. Until 2016, this altitude exceeded regulations; Campinotis first vintage from this windswept sandstone plateau arrived in 2017. Here, elevation and exposure create a Brunello unlike any other in Le Ragnaies portfolio: mid weight, crunchy with mineral tension, sinewy with an almost