Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, Madonna del Piano, Valdicava 2007 vs Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018 currently starts £4.80 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £166.00 | £161.20 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Valdicava | Terroir Al Limit |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Sangiovese | Grenache, Garnacha |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, Madonna del Piano, Valdicava 2007
Valdicava's Madonna del Piano Riserva is, quite simply, one of Brunello's benchmark wines. Produced only in the finest years from a single plot of old-vine Sangiovese Grosso on the estate's highest ground, the 2007 is a wine of remarkable poise: deeply coloured, aristocratically structured, and possessed of that particular Valdicava quality where power and finesse refuse to choose between themselves. Dark cherry, dried roses, and iron-rich earth give way to leather and dried herbs as it opens, the whole thing held together by tannins that feel carved rather than painted. The 2007 vintage across Montalcino was long, warm, and slow-ripening - the kind of year that gives Sangiovese genuine depth without sacrificing its essential acidity. We'd open a bottle now with great pleasure, ideally after two hours in a decanter, but the wine will continue to reward patience until 2045 and quite possibly beyond.
Terroir al Límit, Les Tosses 2018
Nothing ever compares with your first love. Especially when that love began through fate, a stolen glimpse through the trees. Might it have been destiny that steered Dominik Huber and his motorbike through the twisting and mountainous dirt roads to the tiny, 2-ha Les Tosses plot? At 600 meters of elevation, this grand cru vineyard is not only the highest in the Torroja del Priorat village, but also the first (2003) in the Terroir Al Limit collection. It is the Matterhorn of winemaking, a challenge that must be attempted simply because it is there: 80-year-old Carignan vines, steep black slate slopes, blazing southwestern exposition. It was also love at first sight. Inspired by a cellar approach from the far-flung cool and fog-laden Burgundy hills, this wine is hand harvested, with whole cluster native fermentation, skin-kissed for two weeks, and then aged for 16 months in 1200l Stockinger fuder for 16 months. Less extraction, lower alcohol than Priorat's old guard, whole-bunch fermentation: the result is a wine of real tension and mineral definition.
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