L'Aietta – Montalcino picnic spot

Being able to show a flight of 11 consecutive vintages of Brunello in a region with so many newcomers and where estates change hands on an almost quarterly basis is no mean feat. But it is all the more remarkable if you made the first of those 11 wines at the tender age of 18. While he was still in school, Francesco Mulinari’s parents, living in the town of Montalcino, bought a snip of land with olives and abandoned vines just outside Montalcino’s fortified walls on a steep slope for the sole purpose of holding family picnics. With the spectacular...