Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 SCCOS resulting in a wildly complex

resulting in a wildly complex rum with a variety of dried fruit aromas

Working with minimal reserve wines

in many vintages

blended from old cognacs in Surrenne’s Madame

founder of the Loire's riotous La Dive Bouteille festival

Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 SCCOS resulting in a wildly complexThe hill of Montosoli, just north of Montalcino, is about as close as Tuscany gets to a grand cru, and Livio Sassetti bought a piece of it back in the late 1970s. Pertimali sits high and cool on limestone rich soil, which is why this Brunello has a freshness and precision that a lot of Montalcino, chasing power, has lost. The Sassettis are unrepentant traditionalists: three years in big Slavonian casks, no shortcuts. Lorenzo Sassetti runs the estate