Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 NO20230927 Deep soils from decomposed granite

Deep soils from decomposed granite and rich clay help to provide good drainage

Purple-ruby in color

Give it air

From 40-year-old Gamay vines planted on clay-limestone soils in southern Burgundy

000 bottles produced

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 NO20230927 Deep soils from decomposed graniteFrom 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