Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 MENU layered with hints of spice

layered with hints of spice and a signature saline minerality

5% alcohol ensures uncomplicated drinking pleasure—a wine built for social occasions and South Tyrolean cured meats

This 2022 limited edition single malt blends these barrels to bring the sherry casks into the fore to complement the shochu and bourbon barrels

then rested in traditional earthenware vessels

and a sweet-toasty butteriness on the nose

Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 MENU layered with hints of spiceThe 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