2015 Tenuta di Sesta Brunello di Montalcino 750 ml

In a 2015 Brunello vintage that Vinous called “easily one of the top eight or ten” of all time, many top producers put out best-ever bottles.

Even among those, Tenuta di Sesta is an outlier. 

That’s because this breathtaking Brunello has racked up the kind of critical consensus that is basically unheard of south of the $60 mark: It earned a trio of 94-point scores from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, James Suckling, and Vinous, topping it all off with Tre Bicchieri honors from Italy’s revered Gambero Rosso. That prestigious honor went to only a handful of Brunellos, many of them pricey bottlings like Le Chiuse and Carlo Ferrini’s $146 Giodo.

This bottle has been judged as flat-out excellent by the finest palates on the planet, and we’ve got it at a price that we rarely see on Brunello, period—let alone on a bottle that has a trail of accolades like this one.

Take one taste of this wine, and you’ll see why it dazzled us at last year’s Benvenuto Brunello event, where it pushed a ton of big-name wines into the background. Swirling with dark cherry and wild strawberry aromas, broad and breathtaking on the palate with richness and complexity riding on firm tannins, it’s a grand Brunello from one of the great vintages of all time. 

Tenuta di Sesta is a gorgeous 500-acre estate located in the southern part of the municipality of Montalcino, between Sant'Angelo in Colle and Castelnuovo dell’Abate. Sitting on the ancient route from Roselle to Chiusi, the property dates back to the eighth century, and has been in the Ciacci family since brothers Felice and Giovanni purchased it in 1850. 

A century later, in 1966, the first bottles of Brunello from the estate were crafted by Giuseppe Ciacci, the father of current proprietor Giovanni Ciacci. It was a groundbreaking time for the region because only twelve estates were bottling Brunello, making Sesta one of the area's most historic estates. 

Now their landscape is covered with olive groves, grain, and 74 acres of grapes (32 registered to Brunello) sheltered from northern winds by the nearby Monte Amiata range. The estate is run by Giovanni and his children Andrea and Francesca, who vinify in a gleaming winery before moving the wine to their aging cellar for an ultra-traditional treatment in 3,000-liter Slavonian oak barrels. 

At first, Tenuta di Sesta was one of just a handful of Brunello producers. Now they’re one of hundreds—but continue to stand out with this undeniably impressive bottle. It's an unbeatable deal that won us over... and wowed the critics.