Tenuta Le Potazzine

There is absolutely nothing one would change about this bijou estate in la Prata, named after the small, colourful birds that nest here. Le Potazzine's 2019 Brunello, which sold out on release earlier this year (though we do still have a little 2018 available), came close to perfection, and the same can be said of the 2022 Rosso and the quite beautiful 2022 Sangiovese IGT.

At the helm is Montalcino native, Gigliola Giannetti, who was working for Franco Biondi Santi when she planted the original holdings in 1993. A second site in Sant’Angelo in Colle brought the total vineyard area to five hectares, all at an excess of 450 metres, and farmed organically. Le Potazzine is today managed by Gigliola with the help of her daughters, Viola and Sofia (themselves nicknamed Le Potazzine by their maternal grandmother). Long macerations are favoured, rather than excess plunging or pumping over, and ageing – which takes place in traditional Slavonian oak botti for the Rosso and Brunello – is similarly unhurried.