Brunello di Montalcino is Italy’s most majestic red wine — a Sangiovese of extraordinary power, complexity, and longevity produced on the sun-baked hillsides around the ancient hilltop town of Montalcino in the heart of Tuscany. Subject to some of the most demanding production regulations in the wine world — minimum five years of ageing before release, including at least two in oak — Brunello is a wine built for the long haul: structured, austere, and seemingly impenetrable in youth, yet capable of evolving over decades into something of breathtaking beauty and complexity. Caparzo is one of Montalcino’s most historic and celebrated estates, established in the early 1970s when Brunello was still finding its feet on the world stage, and playing a defining role in establishing the appellation’s reputation for greatness. Half a century of experience and dedication is evident in every bottle, and the 2019 — from one of the finest vintages in recent Tuscan memory — is a Brunello of real distinction and class. Ruby in colour, tending towards garnet as it evolves in the glass, with a complex and ample bouquet of wild berry fruit, tea leaf, and orange peel that is layered, nuanced, and deeply expressive of the terroir. On the palate it is dry and firm, both delicate and austere in the classic Brunello tradition, with very long length and persistent, finely structured tannins on the finish that speak of a wine with many years of evolution ahead of it. Classic Brunello — and at £69.99, one of the most rewarding and age-worthy bottles in our entire range.