Tenute Lunelli Maso Montalto, Pinot Noir 2018

This is a fantastic wine: it will be gone very quickly.

Made as though it was from a village in the Côte de Nuits, this is Pinot that will make you rush to the atlas to find out exactly where is was made and then again to our website to order more. 

Like those wonderful Burgundian Pinot Noirs, this is layered, complex and elegant with a wonderful balance of fruit intensity and freshness with developing characteristics that means the wine presents with supple tannins and a velvety smooth body. Bramble fruit flavours with integrated spice, and a long, long finish. It's worth waiting for, but you'll be convinced from the moment you smell it in your glass - the nose is simply delicious!

Giulio Ferrari was a pioneer in sparkling wine production and established his winery in 1902. Having no children to pass the winery to through inheritance, he sought out a successor himself, rather than leaving market forces to dictate the future of it's story. He selected a wine shop owner (good decision) called Bruno Lunelli, from Trento. 

Bought by the Lunelli family in the 1980s, the sixteenth-century Villa Margon is situated in vineyard area that ranges from 350 to 600 metres above sea level, surrounded by the Trento hills, pre-Alps and Alps. Achingly beautiful, it is the place they bring you to visit when they want to treat you like royalty. Outside the villa, the vinyards are almost perfect for the production of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The mineral-rich soils are free-draining and fairly hostile for the propagation of any other type of crop, making it ideal conditions for vines. The land is split into various locations, with a higher site backed by a limestone wall for the Pinot Noir and the land surrounding the Villa being better suited to Chardonnay, while a separate plating of Chardonnay further away is used for the third wine that they produce. It's very straight-forward.

Fermented and aged in barrels of varying ages, this wine develops into a complex, broad, generous and warm Pinot, with elegance, finesse and balance. As with the other wines made on this estate, there is a sense of fruit-reverence that allows for their excellent quality to shine through. Because of this respect and the winery approach, this wine is genuinely capable of long and beneficial development. Sustainably grown and made, this wonderful wine will sadly not be around for very much longer as our route to the source is closing after this lot has gone.