Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 CACOFFER Named for a Greek river

Named for a Greek river god

a hallowed site generating wines as refined as neighboring Volnay

bodied yet weightless

racked to neutral French oak for 6 moths

Barbicaia Rosso di Montepulciano 2019 CACOFFER Named for a Greek riverFrom a single half hectare plot in Montepulciano, Marco Barbi makes only about 3,000 bottles of this a year, genuinely scarce, hand farmed Sangiovese. The name comes from local dialect for the tangle of vine roots that surface from the ground, which tells you how close to the earth this operation runs. It's the young, fresh, declassified sibling to Vino Nobile: fermented with wild yeasts, aged mostly in seasoned wood, and built to drink now rather