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Livio Sassetti Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2021 NO20231018 almond and white tea onThe hill of Montosoli, just north of Montalcino, is about as close as Tuscany gets to a grand cru, and Livio Sassetti bought a piece of it back in the late 1970s. Pertimali sits high and cool on limestone rich soil, which is why this Brunello has a freshness and precision that a lot of Montalcino, chasing power, has lost. The Sassettis are unrepentant traditionalists: three years in big Slavonian casks, no shortcuts. Lorenzo Sassetti runs the estate