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

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