Il Colle di Carli Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2019 750mL

This is a very special wine that we're fortunate to have secured an allocation of.  

Available for the first time in Australia, the Brunello di Montalcino from Il Colle di Carli is a lesson in just how great Brunello (and red wine for that matter) can be. While winemaker Caterina Carli tells us that the 2019 could be cellared for 50 years, opening a bottle now already provides a truly joyful experience. How to describe the complexity here without just writing a long list of flavours that come in and out of focus as you meditate over this wine for an hour or two? Well, we don’t have any better ideas. At this young age it already shows cloves, black pepper, mint, thyme, celery salt, blackberries, kalamata olives, cured meat, porcini mushrooms, Haighs dark berry chocs (a nod to our SA heritage), cedar, toasted almonds. Time slows down as you drink this wine.

2019 was a warm year, providing a big traditional brunello body to the wine. But make no mistake. There is a lightness and complexity that weaves among that muscle, revealing new surprises and an impossibly long finish with every sip. Organic production, native yeasts, aged in large format old oak for 40 months. Drink it over hours, or days. Our biggest decision for this wine, after we’d bought everything Caterina would sell us, was how much we’d be willing to give up to you wonderful people. We’ve stocked up our personal cellar with a dozen to enjoy over the coming decades and you should too (after joining our mailing list at the bottom of the page for a discount code). One bottle just won’t be enough.

Give it at least 2-3 hours of air if you’re opening it this decade, and pair with a rich dish like Ossobuco or mushroom risotto.