LE POTAZZINE BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO 2018

High-elevation vineyards on the southern crown of Montalcino give Le Potazzine's 2018 Brunello its defining lift — the altitude sharpens acidity and keeps the fruit precise through the long growing season. Le Potazzine is a small estate, and that scale shows in the careful cellar work: oak aging is measured, supporting rather than masking the Sangiovese. The wine delivers cherry and redcurrant on the nose, with firm, tightly integrated tannins and a thread of sourness on the close that signals it still has years ahead of it.