Brunello di Montalcino, Fornace
    Le Ragnaie

    Brunello di Montalcino, Fornace, 2020

    96/100
    Robert Parker Wine Advocate
    94/100
    Vinous
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    1. New Release

      2020

      6x75cl

      EP

      £500.00

    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    Back after a 4-year hiatus, Fornace offers deeper fruits with blood orange and grapefruit notes, buttressed by succulent warming cloak of cherries and strawberries. Sweet tannins with a bit of grip on the finish, Fornace is typically plusher and broader on the palate with a certain sandy elegance to the tannins. The 2020 is not heavy but textured and immediately seductive. Fornace is a single plot in the higher part of the Castelnuovo dell’Abate zone, at 400 metres above sea level. The soils here have more clay in them than the Vecchie Vigne, resulting in rounder more powerful style of wine. Aged for 36 months in large Slavonian oak casks.

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    Critic Reviews

    94/100
    Eric Guido,
    Vinous
    Crushed ashen stones, grilled herbs, underbrush and hints of smoke define the 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Fornace. It's soft-textured and round, with more black fruits than red and a core of cool-toned acidity that maintains balance as blood orange and saline minerals saturate. The 2020 finishes with a minty freshness contrasting edgy tannins and a slight citrus tinge that adds lovely complexities.
    drinking window 2026 - 2036
    date of review 11/2025
    96/100
    Monica Larner,
    Robert Parker Wine Advocate
    This wine usually shows a more relaxed character compared to the other bottles in this series of single-vineyard wines from Le Ragnaie. The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Fornace draws its fruit from a vineyard located at 380 meters in elevation not too far from Mastrojanni. The site was once at the bottom of an ancient seabed, and there are round limestone rocks as a result. That theme of "roundness" is transferred to the palate, where the wine offers layers of plush and supple fruit. Like the others, it ages in large oak casks for 3.5 years and is bottled directly from the botte. Only 3,000 bottles were created. In a tasting of his cru wines, Riccardo Campinoti serves this wine last because it delivers a bigger sense of concentration and textural density (while remaining within the transparency of the house style).
    drinking window 2025 - 2045
    date of review 11/2024

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    Specifications

    Country:
    Italy
    Region:
    Tuscany
    Appellation:
    Montalcino
    Producer:
    Le Ragnaie
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Sangiovese
    abv:
    14%

    allergen information

    This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.