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Montevertine "Le Pergole Torte" 2017
Montevertine "Le Pergole Torte" 2017
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The 2017 growing season presented its share of challenges, with a late-April hailstorm conspiring with intense drought conditions to reduce Montevertine’s yields by 40%. Still, Le Pergole Torte always seems to find its equilibrium, and certainly Radda’s relative elegance and the old age of these vines helped mitigate the potential ill effects of hydric stress in the finished wine. Compared to the 2017 Montevertine Rosso released last fall, this 2017 Le Pergole Torte is finer in its tannins and more multilayered in its impression on the palate, yet it bears no more richness than the Rosso and in fact comes across as more effortlessly elegant. Still, this is a ripe, darkly fruited, and gregarious Le Pergole Torte, reminiscent of recent warm years like 2011 and 2007, but with a stricter sense of underlying structure than either of those. Those tempted by the wine’s relative lusciousness to open bottles early are encouraged to exercise restraint, as the density of primary material here—dazzling as it is—will take ample time to transmogrify into secondary fireworks. As ever, the 2017 Le Pergole Torte fermented naturally in 150-hectoliter cement vats with a three-week maceration; it was racked into small, previously used French oak barrels after malolactic fermentation and spent its first year there, after which point it was moved by gravity to large Slavonian casks for its second year of elevage and bottled without filtration.
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