Le Ragnaie Brunello di Montalcino Passo del Lume Spento 2021

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Monica Larner - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The Le Ragnaie 2021 Brunello di Montalcino Passo del Lume Spento (with 4,400 bottles produced) offers a blossoming bouquet that shifts continuously with each swirl of the glass. Aged for 42 months in large Slavonian oak casks, the wine delivers striking freshness and almost icy sensations on the palate, with crisp contours, sharp focus and a brilliantly vertical profile. Sourced from one hectare at 621 meters in elevation on galestro and sandstone soils, it combines darker fruit and savory minerality with firm structure. The high elevation plays a decisive role in preserving the biting freshness and punchy energy that make this wine so compelling.

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Michaela Morris - Decanter

Emblematic of Montalcino’s resilience to the warning climate, this bottling hails from bush vines at the region’s highest heights, 621m. Planted in 2012, they are still quite young but managed to yield exceptional profundity and complexity in 2021. The nose is a fascinating interplay of forest roots and bark with exotic Chinese herbs, black tea and sweet vanillin oak. It masters volume and density without weight. The concentrated acidity aligns with perfectly ripe, crisp red plum. Orange zest gives further lift as layered tannins close in.

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Eric Guido - Vinous

Grilled herbs and crushed ashen stones give way to pine shavings and woodland berries as the 2021 Brunello di Montalcino Passo Del Lume Spento creates its beguiling bouquet. It is savory to the core, with stern minerality upfront that adds a salty contrast to its core of red fruits and inner rosy florals. Nearly wiry in feel through the finish, it reveals a youthful tension as edgy tannins linger, offset by a bump of residual acidity. In 2021 the Passo Del Lume Spento has an almost sultry character, which I'm really enjoying.