Harvest 2024 – Montalcino
Thursday 9 January 2025
Walter canvasses some of Montalcino's top producers for their take on this challenging and unusually abundant vintage. Above, excess fruit cut from the vine. Photo by Alessia Salvioni.
Katia Nussbaum, San Polino
‘You know the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat?’ Katia Nussbaum of San Polino asked me last October, when I inquired how the 2024 growing cycle had been. ‘Simply put, if you place a cat with something that could kill it inside a sealed box, the cat could be said to be in a “superposition” of both dead and alive at one and the same time until the box is...
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