Uccelliera, Voliero, Brunello di Montalcino, DOCG, 2016

The winery shared by Uccelliera and Voliero is located in Castelnuovo dell’ Abate, in the southeast section of Montalcino. Owner and winemaker Andrea Cortonesi has spent his life working in the vineyards and countryside of Montalcino. Today he makes use of three separate vineyards, all within the subregion of Castelnuovo dell’ Abate, but all differing in elevation, soil composition and aspect, to create his truly southern yet balanced Brunello: Uccelliera.

On the other hand, the fruit for Voliero, which was once sourced from a rented parcel in the north, now hails from two separate yet both higher-elevation vineyards in Castelnuovo dell’Abate, as well as Sant’Angelo in Colle. Voliero is also refined in large oak casks for thirty months, versus the Uccelliera, which spends twenty-four months in a combination of French and Slavonian oak.