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#9 Wine of 2016: 2007 Villa Le Prata Brunello di Montalcino DOGC

Posted on December 12, 2016November 1, 2018 by

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OUR #9 Wine of 2016

2007 Villa Le Prata DOGC (Sold Out)

Brunello di Montalcino | Tuscany | Wine Spectrum 96+

“The 2007 Brunello di Montalcino is an attractive, juicy wine laced with sweet red berries, flowers, spices and licorice, all wrapped in a soft approachable style that is quite appealing. This is an especially fleshy, radiant Brunello from Villa Le Prata. The 2007 should drink well upon release and for at least another decade beyond. The 2007 was made from parcels in Tavernelle and Castelnuovo dell’Abate, and spent a total of four years in barrel, most of it in cask.” ~ Antonio Galloni

VILLA LE PRATA WAS BUILT IN 1860 BY COUNT DE’ VECCHI AS HUNTING LODGE, AFTERWARDS, IT BECAME THE COUNTRY HOME OF THE BISHOP OF MONTALCINO.

Massimo Losappio, chief surgeon of Montalcino hospital and his wife Marialuce, a philosophy teacher, purchased the Villa in 1980 and, driven by the passion for wine and the pleasure to share with their friends the fruits of this generous land, planted the first hectare of vineyard near the Villa. Later on, with the absolute desire to enclose in a single bottle the most authentic atmosphere of the Montalcino land, two other vineyards were planted in the area of Castelnuovo dell’Abate and acquired the fourth vineyard near the Villa.

These vineyards, in three different zones, are the perfect combination of the elegance, the perfumes conveyed by altitude, and the body and structure of the land south of Montalcino.

Villa Le Prata is a very small estate run by the family members who work with passion to obtain exclusively fine wines.

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