La Torre

Rosso Di Montalcino

Name: Brunello Di Montalcino
Brand: La Torre
Price: 1195 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Sangiovese Grosso from Tuscany, Italy

R545

Bottle size:

750 ml

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The colour is bright ruby red. To the nose La Torre Rosso di Montalcino displays fresh cassis and wild cherry. On the palate, the same fruity characteristics are framed by a balanced structure with excellent texture and acidic tension. The fruity flavours are layered with delightful tones of ash, wet earth and mild spice.

Cassis

Cherry

Spices

Earthiness

The vineyards are situated south of Montalcino, on the side of a hill overlooking the town of Sant’Angelo in Colle, looking directly towards Mount Amiata. They are located on a natural terrace facing south, where they are protected from the scirocco and tramontana winds by Poggio dell’Arna – with the abbey of Sant’Antimo on the east side of the hill and by Poggio Civitella, a large hill 800 metres above sea level. The terrain is medium soil mixture of Eocene origin with abundant stones. The south west-facing vineyards are at altitude of 420 metres a.s.l. The training system is spur cordon; 45% of the vineyards have 2,200 plants per hectare; the remaining 55% have 4,000 plants per hectare. The yield is 7 tons/ha.

La Torre

The La Torre winery was founded in 1976 by Giuseppe Ananìa who purchased the La Torre estate from the Ciacci family of Montalcino. Until a few years earlier the estate had been worked as a farm by sharecroppers with livestock cherry trees wheat and mixed olive trees and vines. While Giuseppe planted the first vineyard two and a half hectares in area in 1976 it was up to his son Luigi to expand it in 1999 by another three hectares. Now the vineyard totals about five and a half hectares and surrounds the house on the south and west.