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The Brunello Montalcino is a wine with a designation DOCG and in particular its grape variety is a variety of Sangiovese that in these parts took the same name as the wine.
It is grown in the hills surrounding the town of Montalcino, this area is characterized by clay soils, stony and partly alluvial and tufacei.

The great success of Brunello Montalcino began roughly in anna seventies.
Currently producers more accredited in the area are a total of sixty and the average age of vineyards is 15 years with some reaching 60.
This shows how plants are frequently updated and that producers of Brunello di Montalcino have registered a huge increase also driven date that the enormous worldwide got this great Tuscan wine.

The fundamental peculiarity of Brunello Montalcino is dall’aderenza total that all the wineries have to strictly traditional production.

Rare indeed are the cases of aging in barrels. The fermentation of Brunello happens now universally steel, but then the wine spends 4 years for aging in oak barrels that have capacity ranging from 30 to 100 ettoletri.

If you decide to buy wisely Brunello Montalcino should be recalled that the bottles should be stored with horizontal provision and have no fear that the wine can indeed damaged: the mentioned cases of extreme longevity and also some companies di Montalcino agree to receive bottles very old (but extremely valuable and / or
of a certain value) and shall endeavour to stapparle, check that the wine is still intact and richiuderle with a new stopper.
How dish accompany Brunello?

The Brunello  Montalcino is one of the most important Italian wines and prefers accompany roast red meat, is excellent with the game, beef and chicken and great cheeses.

At what temperature should be served Brunello?
The Brunello It should be served at a temperature of about 18-20 ° C.