Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 CACOFFER The fruit & spice aroma

The fruit & spice aroma gives undertones of cherries and wild strawberries

racked to neutral French oak for 6 moths

herbaceous finish

Subtle notes of just ripe forest berries

A blend of the classic Portuguese grapes Touriga Nacional

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 CACOFFER The fruit & spice aromaFrom 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