Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 042726OFFER and tradition shape the distinct

and tradition shape the distinct expressions of each

great-great-grandson Fabio Alessandria continues a classicist

Bottled on its own

Lots of tropical notes on the palate

from exactly that vintage

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 042726OFFER and tradition shape the distinctFrom a single half hectare plot in Montepulciano, Marco Barbi makes only about 3,000 bottles of this a year, genuinely scarce, hand farmed Sangiovese. The name comes from local dialect for the tangle of vine roots that surface from the ground, which tells you how close to the earth this operation runs. It's the young, fresh, declassified sibling to Vino Nobile: fermented with wild yeasts, aged mostly in seasoned wood, and built to drink now rather