{"product_id":"tassi-brunello-di-montalcino-guiseppe-2021","title":"Tassi Brunello di Montalcino Giuseppe 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eFabio Tassi is one of our favorite characters in the whole wine world, and this \u003cem\u003e\"unofficial mayor of Montalcino\"\u003c\/em\u003e happens to craft some of the region’s very best. Named for his father Giuseppe, this single-vineyard plot sang in the swaggering 2021 vintage – and we have to admit, this is one of the finest Brunellos we've poured in ages. 97 points and down to just $149 per bottle on 2 or more (free shipping on merely 2)… it’s a yes for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFabio Tassi loves Montalcino the way most of us love a long Sunday lunch – deeply, loudly, and without apology. He owns wine shops and restaurants in the village, including a shop tucked right inside Montalcino's medieval fortress herself, all while running the family winery. When, exactly, the man sleeps remains one of Tuscany's great unsolved mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe family's roots in this land run generations deep – the Tassi and Franci clans have been prized Montalcino honey-makers since the 1960s, and Fabio's grandfather Guido Franci cut his teeth working the vines for the legendary Biondi-Santi. But it was in the late 1990s that Fabio and his father Giuseppe planted their stakes in wine, buying land in Castelnuovo dell'Abate and, in 1999, planting the symbolic vineyard that now bears Giuseppe's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat two-hectare, organically farmed plot in Montalcino's warm southern reaches is where today's beauty comes from. Fermented on native yeasts, macerated for a patient few weeks, and rested two years in large Slavonian oak botti, it's simply an exquisite Sangiovese. You’ve got a fancy grocery market of layers going on here – a nose of ripe morello cherry and wild raspberry laced with blood orange, dried rose petal, crushed thyme, and some woodsmoke over warm stone. The palate gets even sexier with sappy red fruit and a savory, almost balsamic depth, framed by fine chalky tannins and a bright vein of acidity that keeps it dancing and light. It drinks gorgeously now with an hour of air, but make no mistake — this has decades in the tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd what a vintage to have chosen. Critics are already crowning 2021 alongside the region's modern greats like 2010, 2016, and 2019 – and Wine Spectator's Bruce Sanderson handed the vintage a 99-point rating after tasting over 100 releases. A brutal early-season frost slashed yields, so the best 2021s are both scarce and razor-focused. In 20 years, when people are still waxing poetic about 2021 Brunello over long dinners, this is one of the bottles they'll mean. We've got just 5 cases at the best price in the country – so speak up, and speak quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFOOD PAIRINGS: Fabio's a truffle man through and through. Go big with fresh black Tuscan truffles shaved over hand-cut pasta. Rustic, decadent, perfect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Bottle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53098068410665,"sku":"1013306","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/2706\/8457\/files\/TassiGuiseppe2021_1013306_FB_Rack.jpg?v=1786755325","url":"https:\/\/firstbottlewines.com\/products\/tassi-brunello-di-montalcino-guiseppe-2021","provider":"First Bottle Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}