2013 Tabarrini Colle alle Macchie Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG 750ml
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Colle alle Macchie is the boldest voice in Giampaolo Tabarrini's trio of single-vineyard Sagrantinos, a wine the estate itself describes as going beyond extreme. It grows at 420 meters on a hilltop parcel planted in 1997, where deep clay soils and unbroken southern exposure push the late-ripening Sagrantino grape to exceptional maturity year after year. The Tabarrini family has farmed these hills outside Montefalco for generations, and Giampaolo has turned their distinct parcels into some of Umbria's most compelling wines.
Everything here contrasts with its sibling cru: where Campo alla Cerqua's stony, southeast-tilted slope gives filigree and minerality, Macchie's rich clay and full-sun ripening build muscle, dark concentration, and legendary staying power. Yields are held to a spartan 35 quintals per hectare from Guyot-trained vines, and only about 3,000 bottles are produced.
After more than a month of skin contact, the wine matures at least 36 months exclusively in large oak casks, then another year in bottle. At 14.5% alcohol, the 2013 is powerful yet increasingly serene: crushed black fruit and licorice are joined by the vineyard's signature mint and eucalyptus coolness, and the famous wall of Sagrantino tannin is now settling into velvet.
This is a wine for the long table and the big plate: dry-aged ribeye, braised oxtail, pecorino di fossa, or anything charred over live fire. Give it one to two hours in a decanter, or simply cellar it onward — a wine built like this improves for decades, and the 2013 is only now hitting its confident stride. Patience with the cork is rewarded from the very first pour.
- Size: 750ml
- Rating: Wine Spectator rating 95 points
- ABV: 14.5%
- Vintage: 2013
- Origin: Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG, Umbria, Italy
- Winery: Tabarrini
- Grape/Blend: 100% Sagrantino
- Vineyard: Colle alle Macchie; south-facing clay hilltop at 420m
- Aging: 36+ months in large oak casks, 12 months in bottle
- Tasting Notes: Crushed black fruit, licorice, mint, eucalyptus; powerful tannins turning velvety
- Drink Window: Now through 2038; decant 1-2 hours
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