From a hot vintage, the 2017 Rosso di Montalcino offers dark fruit at its core surrounded by spice, flint and scorched earth. The wine is aged in large wood casks for eight months, and those oak aromas are downplayed to a large extent. The oak does, however, help to give the wine a firm and solid presence in the mouth. Some 25,000 bottles were made. There is a note of barbecue spice and clove on the close.