We have always considered every single bottle of any vintage of our Brunello di Montalcino so precious that it did not need to be doubled up with a Riserva. With the 1997 vintage, known as the vintage "of the century", we realised at once that we could make an exception so we began a period of ageing in wood with this purpose in mind, in order to create a unique wine to be tasted on the most important occasions of life.

We produced only 2000 bottles of Brunello di Montalcino 1997 Riserva which wereaged for 3 years and decanted every 6 months into new Slavonian oak barrels from which the wine received the best that could be offered. In the following year of ageing, prescribed by the regulations for Riserva, it lay for 6 months in new 225 lt barriques of HT Allier wood and for 6 months in the bottle.

Only a wine of great structure and balance could undergo such an arduous process and come through not only winning but magnificently enhanced by its components.The tannins and aromas, already so harmonious and pleasing, were rendered even more noble by an extra year of ageing. The wine transmits sensations and perceptions that give a clearer understanding of our territory and the particularly sensitive claim that in it, they can detect the perfumes and colours of our hill.