Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 SPDESSERT with mellow aromatics and a

with mellow aromatics and a sweet

thirteen botanicals including juniper

Pleasing and immediate

Nearly two full years in neutral oak gave Cygnus the time she needed to integrate varietals

including wild strawberries

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 SPDESSERT with mellow aromatics and aFrom 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