Soldera Case Basse

Soldera Case Basse is one of Tuscany’s most revered and idiosyncratic Sangiovese estates, founded in 1972 by Milanese insurance broker Gianfranco Soldera and his botanist wife, Graziella, on an abandoned 23-hectare property southwest of Montalcino. They planted Sangiovese in the early 1970s and released their first wines mid-decade, quickly earning cult status for intensely traditional Brunello that rejected fashions for barriques and blended grapes. The estate famously insists that wines from Montalcino should be…