Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, 2016

Only made in exceptional vintages, the Poggio di Sotto Riserva can truly be considered one of Tuscany’s most legendary wines and a veritable 100-pt wine if ever there were one. Coming from the oldest, rockiest plots of the estate and painstakingly selected to ensure absolute pristine quality, a single cask was then kept aside and bottled after 45 months. Always a wine of intense focus, minerality and rippling persistence, with a darker more wound-up berried character, traces of licorice, camphor and violet, 2016 will go down as a benchmark. Limited quantities available.