2015 Andretta Brunello di Montalcino 750 ml

After our first offer of Andretta, Wine Access members made it one of our very top Brunellos of the year, raining down five-star reviews like: “Great find Wine Access!” “More than worth the price,” and “Excellent!”

After our members made Andretta the new must-have Brunello, we ran to the importer and claimed every bottle we could of the 2015. From what Vinous calls “easily one of the top eight or ten Brunello vintages of all time,” this is the kind of bargain you walk into a wine shop hoping to find, but never seem to. 

But Wine Access isn’t your local wine shop, and it’s happening here today. We’ve got a rare allocation of this critically acclaimed, estate-aged, perfect-vintage Brunello that will set you back way less than it tastes like it should.

Go for a case or more—the move that savvy collectors will make at this price and from this vintage—because if you love lush, muscular expressions of Brunello di Montalcino, you’ll be accustomed to paying way more for wine of this quality.

We’re fairly certain Andretta is the only wine we’ve ever sold that’s made by a philosophy teacher and an aerospace engineer. In 1994, Rosalba Vitanza took a break from Hegel and Kant for a romantic weekend escape to Montalcino with her husband, Guido Andretta, who ran an aerospace consulting business. They ended up buying a half-acre of vines, and Rosalba was soon running Tenuta Vitanza and earning high scores from Wine Spectator.

Guido was always bugging his wife to make his favorite style of Brunello: muscular and rich, with more French oak aging. As a gift for their 10th anniversary, Rosalba started a new label for him that would specialize in that style, named Andretta. This flagship Brunello di Montalcino release hails from plots of their now 80-acre property called Wolf Vineyards, located in the Castelnuovo dell’Abate subzone.

This is the warmest region of Montalcino, shielded from easterly winds while exposed to maritime breezes from the west, leading to a style of wine that is big, full-bodied, and dense. It’s a place that’s unique for its alternating layers of sandstone and volcanic subsoil, which help supply terrific mineral and herbal complexity.

2015 was the vintage that Vinous said “industry pros were ready to sound the trumpets, beat the drums and break out the bubbly” over, and it has produced wines that many collectors have been itching to open. Start with this sumptuous 94-pointer, which you can uncork without a single regret.