More about the 2019 LA MAGIA BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO: Some wines don't simply emerge from a great vintage; they crystallize it. The 2019 La Màgia is one of them, a Brunello that captures the depth and strength that made this harvest so celebrated. Set in the southern reaches of Montalcino, La Màgia occupies a landscape steeped in history and mystique, tended for generations by the Schwarz family with a reverence that borders on stewardship. The estate's defining feature is its bowl-shaped vineyard, a perfectly angled cradle of Sangiovese more than four decades in age. Its stony, sandy-loam soils rest above a deeper clay layer that forces the vines to struggle, concentrating flavor while preserving freshness. It's a site that produces wines of natural precision even in challenging years, and brilliance in great ones. Aged for 36 months in French oak, the 2019 Brunello shows the effortless balance that only a great site in a great year can achieve. In the cellar, La Màgia let the vintage speak, resulting in a wine that opens with clarity and energy before deepening into finely drawn layers of fruit. Its structure is poised and confident, promising steady evolution for a decade or more. With acclaim in the mid-to-high 90s, it rightfully stands among the most compelling wines of the year.