The Montevertine estate was purchase in 1967 by Milanese steel magnate Sergio Manetti as a summer home. Within a few years, and with the help of a beloved local named Bruno Bini who was raised at the estate, Sergio planted vines and began producing wine from the farm’s enviably situated high-altitude hillsides, creating some of the purest expressions of Sangiovese. Sergio passed away in 2000, and his son Martino has held the reins since his death, changing virtually nothing about the steadfastly low-tech, traditional processes from which the wines are created. Vineyards are worked entirely without chemicals; grapes are always hand-harvested; fermentations are spontaneous; no stainless steel exists at the estate—only cement and old wood; sulfur is applied conservatively and only at racking; and neither fining nor filtration have ever been employed. These are wines that wear their low-intervention origins not as a badge but in a matter-of-fact manner; wines this pure, this expressive—of course they are produced without unwelcome manipulation. It is truly rare to find wines of this level of complexity and refinement that also lacks any sense of striving, and every bottle of wine issued from the Montevertine estate is a testament to the beauty of Sangiovese at its zenith.