2019 Podere Le Ripi 'Lupi e Sirene' Riserva, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Italy Super Cattivo Second fermentation in the bottle

Second fermentation in the bottle

before ~18 months’ élevage in barrels with a restrained touch of new oak

It is moderately dosed at between 7 and 8 grams per litre

with pressed late-ferment carbonic Carignan)

2019 Podere Le Ripi 'Lupi e Sirene' Riserva, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Italy Super Cattivo Second fermentation in the bottleThis single vineyard Riserva comes from the eastern slope at Castelnuovo dellAbate, on brown marl, slightly alkaline soils with a granitic skeleton that lend the wine its ferrous, mineral edge. Grapes are hand harvested in early September and fermented with native yeasts 2025 days in open oak casks, with daily pump overs for roughly 80% of the ferment before finishing Piedmont style (infusion). levage is 36 months in large oak, followed by at least 14