Montalcino is the big leagues, and Le Ragnaie has become a marquee player in relatively short order. Since purchasing the estate in 2000, Riccardo and Jennifer Campinoti have become fast-rising stars in this already star-studded region.

Their wines have exactly what all the great Brunello di Montalcino wines share, a mixture of power and complex perfume combined with depth and nervous tension.

Riccardo has been farming organically since 2005, and the wines are aged in traditional, 25- and 50-hectoliter Slavonian oak casks. This is pure Sangiovese, all about cherry-fruited exuberance and bright, woodsy perfume. Intensity but with lift, freshness and bright acidity. The STELLAR 2019 vintage takes this wine to a different level. 100% delicious now, this wine is built to last another 15 - 20 years.

Why You'll Love It:

• Deeply complex aromatics driven by mature fruit and savory earth: red cherry, black plum, red currant, blood orange peel, wet roses and violets, dry autumn leaves, warm spices, leather, wild mushroom stock, and dried meat
  
  
• Medium-plus in body with a chiseled, energetic feel—exactly and everything you'd want from top-tier Sangiovese
  
  
• Delicious and pleasurable now but built to last. This wine will cellar wonderfully through 2040

How To Serve It:

• Decant for 1 hour and serve in Bordeaux stems between 60-65 degrees
  
  
• Do like you would in Montalcino, pair with pappardelle with a wild boar ragù, or perhaps squab or rabbit. Duck porchetta style would also be unbelievably good
  
  
• Enjoy some bottles now but make sure to set some aside to age. You'll be well rewarded for your patience anytime over the next 15 years.