Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 NO20230705 looking out over the Gironde

looking out over the Gironde

This is Chardonnay of cut and precision rather than butter: white flowers

or a selection of creamy cheeses

This super traditional

made alongside a red blend and a skin-contact Sauvignon Blanc in the same series

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 NO20230705 looking out over the GirondeFrom a single half hectare plot in Montepulciano, Marco Barbi makes only about 3,000 bottles of this a year, genuinely scarce, hand farmed Sangiovese. The name comes from local dialect for the tangle of vine roots that surface from the ground, which tells you how close to the earth this operation runs. It's the young, fresh, declassified sibling to Vino Nobile: fermented with wild yeasts, aged mostly in seasoned wood, and built to drink now rather