Le Pergole Torte 50 Anni Rosso Tosc. IGT 2013 Montevertine

Perhaps no Tuscan wine is a better vintage ambassador than the Montevertine 2013 Le Pergole Torte. This gorgeous wine seems to have captured the energy, the freshness, the spirt and the edginess of this classic vintage. It really speaks to my palate thanks to its silky consistency, its steady aromatic momentum and its understated elegance. The wine shows an uncanny level of the proverbial Tuscan nobility. The bouquet offers a delicate embroidery of wild berry and underbrush, with lingering tones of dark fruit and spice that appear on second nose. The mouthfeel is ethereal and polished with tannins that already show a superior level of integration despite the wine's young age. The aging future looks very bright for the 2013 Le Pergole Torte.

The 2013 Le Pergole Torte is one of the finest releases from Montevertine in recent memory. Martino Manetti is another vintner who has clearly benefited from past experience, and from pure vision and talent, to produce a flagship wine in 2013.

A floral and inebriating nose that simply enchants. So aromatic. A wealth of cherry and some citrus with rose petal, too. Full body yet firm and silky with dusty tannins and a wonderful length and beauty. Fantastic now but better in 2019.

The 2013 Le Pergole Torte 50 is one of the most memorable wines to emerge from Montevertine in many years. In 2013, proprietor Martino Manetti felt one vat was different from the others during fermentation, so he kept that vat separate and decided to age the wine two years in cask, as opposed to a year in barrique and year in cask he gives Pergole Torte. The resulting wine is powerful, dense and explosively structured. Time in the glass brings out lovely Sangiovese fruit, along with hints of mint, rose petal and lavender, but the 2013 remains austere, tannic and in need of further cellaring. Montevertine has only made a Pergole Torte Riserva once before, in 1990. Vinous readers likely know that wine is epic. The 2013 edition is not as sweet or opulent. Instead, it is likely to take years to be at its finest. It is, though, absolutely unforgettable. Sadly, there are just 2,200 bottles to go around.