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Canalicchio di Sopra, Brunello di Montalcino, 2012

Red Wine from Tuscany, Italy
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Canalicchio di Sopra calls 2012 an extreme year whose extremes, oddly enough, cancelled each other out. That push-and-pull is the reason to pick up this bottle. Where 2010 was a straight, even run to a great vintage, 2012 was a winding, sometimes harsh season, and the winemaker had to interpret it and take risks. The family's answer was equal parts of its two northern-Montalcino crus, Canalicchio (heavy clay, very rich in magnesium, iron and manganese) and Montosoli (galestro, a crumbly rock-and-clay soil, here very mineral, loamy and silty). The wine then spent three years in big 25-hectolitre casks of Slavonian oak. As the family tells it, the result has a warm year's richness on the nose and a cool year's minerality on the palate. Founder Primo Pacenti's grandchildren, Francesco, Marco and Simonetta Ripaccioli, run the estate today. If you've had the 2010, this is a great comparison: the same family, but a very different road to the bottle.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Sangiovese

  • Vintage

    2012

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Bistecca alla fiorentina, wild-boar ragù over pappardelle, roast leg of lamb with rosemary and mint, or a wedge of aged pecorino Toscano.

Tasting Profile

The nose is rich, like a warm year, with the balsamic and minty notes the producer links to Montalcino's northern zone. The palate is cooler and more mineral. Elegant, silky tannins and well-blended but lively acidity point to a long life in bottle.

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