Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2019 (1.5L) NO20231101 and dried cassis territory while

and dried cassis territory while the core of Pauillac graphite stays firmly in place

from a distillery founded in 1869 by John Smith—former manager of both Macallan and Glenlivet

the Pinot reveals its delicate nose: red fruits and black fruits

Whether this is your first L'Assemblage or you're returning for round two

Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2019 (1.5L) NO20231101 and dried cassis territory whileMadonna del Piano is Valdicava's flagship Riserva the estate's most ambitious bottling, drawn from its top parcels and aged longer in large Slavonian oak. The 2019 was a warm, generous vintage that produced ripe, opulent Brunello with abundant fruit and velvety tannins. Compared to the more classical 2016, the 2019 is the hedonist's vintage: more immediate, more luscious, more flattering early on, while still carrying the structural backbone to age