Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2006 (1.5L) Consignment entirely certified organic and made

entirely certified organic and made only from estate fruit

where the Geoffray family has perfected organic

including smoked salmon

A wine from vines planted before World War One by someone named Édouard—and it tastes like history with attitude

The result has a kind of pointillist feel: detailed

Valdicava Brunello Riserva Madonna Del Piano 2006 (1.5L) Consignment entirely certified organic and madeMadonna del Piano is Valdicava's flagship Riserva a selection from the estate's best parcels, aged longer in large Slavonian oak, and released only in great vintages. The 2006 is now squarely in its mature drinking window: a library condition magnum from a classic, structured Brunello vintage that has aged into a tertiary symphony of dried cherry, leather, tobacco, and forest floor. This is what people mean when they talk about why Brunello can age