Harvest 2024 – Montalcino

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.

Thursday, 9 January 2025
Brunello 2024 green bunch of grapes

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...