Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2019 (1.5L) NO20231101 The kind of premier cru

The kind of premier cru that makes Chambolle's reputation

Dark-fruited and savory

from a distillery founded in 1869 by John Smith—former manager of both Macallan and Glenlivet

and dried cassis territory while the core of Pauillac graphite stays firmly in place

Savagnin is the grape behind the Jura's famous whites

Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2019 (1.5L) NO20231101 The kind of premier cruMadonna del Piano is Valdicava's flagship Riserva the estate's most ambitious bottling, drawn from its top parcels and aged longer in large Slavonian oak. The 2019 was a warm, generous vintage that produced ripe, opulent Brunello with abundant fruit and velvety tannins. Compared to the more classical 2016, the 2019 is the hedonist's vintage: more immediate, more luscious, more flattering early on, while still carrying the structural backbone to age