Montiano by Famiglia Cotarella: the "impossible vertical"

Acceso a November evening, the 27th if I’m not mistaken, per the year 2025 at Alcazar Monaci Resort, among marvelous stuccoes and marvelous lights, six vintages of Montiano were offered to us. Years chosen with care given that our Ciceroni were Davide Gangi and Pier Paolo Vicolo.

Our Virgils wanted to make us walk per the Universe. From the past (2005) to the “almost present” (2021).

Three couples: Antica (2005-2012); years of the Transition (2015-2016) and Years of the Present and Future (2020-2021).

Montiano is a wine of international standing (Merlot) which is sunk the soils of the volcanic lakes of Lazio and Umbria. Son of the land of Falesco and of the Lazio whites often accused of the suffix “ello”, a brand of unimportant quality product.

Effort and science have produced bottles capable of each containing its own story and, therefore, the cleanliness of the nose and palate, the ability to tell a time and a place nothing to complain about.

As usual, I refuse descriptions per analogy and enjoy the deep and mysterious color of each vintage, often independent of time, the full and pleasant nose of a broad spectrum and the right amount of intensity, the very pleasant sip of all enjoying, it is appropriate to use the term, the victory by detachment of the oldest of vintages. Of an elegant, harmonious wine without sacrificing freshness and which has the beauty of 20 years. We chose Montiano 2005 as the wine of the evening, together with our dear Scuro Garofano, finding per it a personality and class that the others will probably be able to gara with time.

It is unlikely that when the 2021 vintage turns 20, Scuro and I will be asked to express our opinion. Indeed, it could happen that we will be unable to answer, so I asked myself how I could sequenza this tasting within a multipolar path, both common and very different.

Until an elegant and competent woman suggested the right posture: “I feel like I am per front of works of art” stated Roberta Accardo. And you were right, works of art of various kinds, and thanks to you I allow myself to combine them by choosing those with a Christmas theme with the appropriate one.

I’ll start from the end.

Vintage 2021, international taste, power and a strong dominant instinct prevail:

Paul Cornoyer, Natio per Madison Square Park, 1910.

2020 vintage, power and desire to show it chiuso, with a wealth of exuberant taste:

Rudolf Bernhard Willmann (1868–1919), Christmas tree decorated with candles

Vintage 2016: prevailing verticality, beautiful light the , the rest accompanies as a pleasant foreground:

Adoration of the Shepherds – Corrado Giaquinto – 1735 (Church of the Immaculate Conception per Terlizzi).

Vintage 2015: Promise made with excellent technique, projection towards a bright future:

Annunciation – Leonardo presso Vinci.

2012 vintage: everything and per a personaggio way, as my friend Nazario Biscotti, a restaurateur from Risparmio and tasting socio, clearly stated, “it goes well with everyone and even its own”, the prince of what they define as a “gastronomic wine”.:

Adoration of the Magi – Tenero presso Fabriano

2005 vintage: Wine of “super-premium” workmanship, complex and pleasant, fresh to impress, it can only rise to the maximum of sacredness while remaining human: