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Ettore Spina’s Rosso di Montalcino is the only wine he produces that is aged in French barrique -- a few of which are “new” in any given vintage. Since the DOC regulations do not specify barrel-ageing requirements, Ettore allows each vintage’s characteristics to determine length in oak. Here, the wine’s dark ruby color is matched with ripe fruit and vanilla scents from the barrels. The residual tannins are well resolved, ripe and silky. Try this Rosso with grelled rib eye, roast pork shoulder, veal chops, or sausages.
About this wine producer: In Montalcino, the relatively small Sesta sub-zone sits high on hills reaching 1500 feet above sea level. The soils are rocky, galestro shale, and the vineyards benefit from wind currents along the Orcia river below the hills. Ettore Spina and his wife, Enrica, grew up in Piemonte, and Enrica's father was a viticoltore (wine farmer). Ettore, however found his way to Banca di Roma after high school where he had a career for over 40 years. Always interested in the wines of Brunello, he purchased this small winery the Sesta sub-zone in 1980. Upon Ettore's retirement from the bank, he and Enrica moved to the farm in Montalcino restoring the vines using organic principles, and rebuilt the winery and cellars.
$42.00
No one finer! Smooth as silk flow, beautiful garnet color, timeless like Montalcino itself, the flavor rises on your tongue like a surfer, highlighting notes of subdued vanilla, young cherry, and brandied port.