Le Ragnaie - Brunello di Montalcino Paso del Lume Spento 2019 (750ml)

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Producer	Le Ragnaie
Country	Italy
Region	Brunello di Montalcino
Subregion	Paso del Lume Spento
Varietal	Sangiovese Grosso
Vintage	2019
Sku	38942
Size	750ml

   

WA

98

JD

97

JR

17.5

V

94

Le Ragnaie, a pioneering winery in Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy, is led by the dynamic winemaker Riccardo Campinoti, who brings a fresh perspective to traditional Tuscan winemaking. With a passion for the region's history and culture, Riccardo employs organic viticulture practices to craft wines that authentically reflect the region. The estate's high-altitude vineyards, including those in Petroso and Castelnuovo dell'Abate, offer a unique combination of freshness, vibrancy, and coolness

This wine kisses the sky with fruit from bush-trained vines planted in 2012 at the highest point of the appellation (above 600 meters in elevation). This is a wine to watch in the future, especially as these vines grow older. The Le Ragnaie 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Passo del Lume Spento has a fine and direct bouquet with vibrant red fruit, cranberry, pressed rose and rosemary blossom. Fruit and floral components run very strong, and you don't get as much of the earthiness that we find in the other wines. Instead, it feels mineral and salty. Crunchy fruit and powdery tannins fuel a very long and polished finish with a contained 13.5% alcohol content. This wine is fluid and more of a shape-shifter. Only 4,400 bottles were made. (M. Lerner)

To close out the single vineyard wines, the 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino Passo Del Lume Spento takes a youthful red/garnet-tinged color and, as with the rest of the wines of this vintage from Le Ragnaie, has a signature stamp of incredible perfume lifting from the glass out of the gate, with notes fresh Mediterranean herbs, ripe cherries, anise, and crushed rose petals. Ripe citrus-toned fruit fills the palate of this medium-bodied Brunello, which has great mouthwatering acidity that floats through the sides of the palate, angular tannins, and a mineral-toned finish. It’s packed with tension, though, and is deserving of another year or two of cellaring before drinking 2025-2045.

The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Passo del Lume Spento opens with a mentholated freshness, as crushed stone and minty herbs complicate dusty dried strawberries. This is juicy in character and wickedly fresh, showing its minerality up front as a tart wave of wild berries descends upon the palate. It finishes with cheek-puckering tension, potent and primary, along with a coating of fine-grained tannins, all balanced by a bump of residual acidity. This is a spice bomb, yet it has the energy to balance. The Passo del Lume Spento hails from bush-trained vines planted in 2012 at 621 meters.

A vineyard at 620 m above sea level. 50 days on the skins.
Lustrous and just mid ruby. Concentrated and refined on the nose. Complex. Lots of juicy red fruit lined with super-fine, long tannins. Super-elegant, minerally and long. (WS)