The 2021 Il Duemilaventuno di Sergio Manetti is a tiny production of just 1,000 magnums to celebrate the 100th anniversary of founder Sergio Manetti's birth. It’s a wine that marries concentration, freshness and structure in a way I don't remember seeing in any other wine I have tasted from Montevertine. Macerated dark cherry, plum, mocha, new leather, incense, cedar and dried flowers all soar from the glass. Aging is two years in cask, like Montevertine, with no French oak. When Sergio Manetti first conceived Le Pergole Torte, ripeness was hard to come by in Chianti Classico, especially in Radda. French oak helped give the wines some of the textural richness and depth that Mother Nature simply could not provide. Tasting this wine naturally begs the question as to whether French oak is truly necessary in Pergole Torte today given much warmer, drier growing seasons. These magnums will be quite expensive, but beyond that I wonder if this wine opens the door to a more contemporary style for Pergole Torte.
- Antonio Galloni (07/2025)
