Valdicava is one of the great names of Montalcino a benchmark estate now run by Vincenzo Abbruzzese, whose wines routinely sit alongside Soldera, Biondi-Santi, and Poggio di Sotto in any serious conversation about Brunello. The 2021 annata is the classic expression: a blend across the estate’s holdings, aged the mandatory five years before release. The vintage delivered ripe, well-structured Sangiovese with the kind of polish and proportion Valdicava is famous for. This is Brunello at its most complete powerful but never heavy, with the perfume and persistence that separate the great producers from the merely good.