Best Rosso di Montalcino 2024, 2023, 2022 at Benvenuto Brunello 2025: here is the Winemag ranking and all the scores. Rosso di Montalcino increasingly confirms itself as an immediate reading of the territory and the vintages. A Tuscan denomination capable of clearly conveying climatic differences and agronomic choices. The tasting of the 2024, 2023, and 2022 vintages at Benvenuto Brunello 2025 highlights a high average quality level. With peaks of absolute excellence reaching 93 points. And a stylistic definition increasingly centered on the relationship between drinkability, precision of fruit—which reverberates on the tannic component—and varietal identity of Sangiovese.
Leading the ranking are wines of great expressive clarity, capable of not sacrificing gustatory depth. Like the 93 points awarded to Argiano, Donatella Cinelli Colombini, Fanti, Fattoria dei Barbi, Le Chiuse, Palazzo, Pietroso, and Poggio di Sotto. Wines distinguished by aromatic precision, balance between fruit and structure, and well-integrated tannins with clear evolutionary prospects. Close behind, numerous 92-point wines tell of a Rosso di Montalcino more “Brunello-like” in texture and complexity, as in the cases of Canalicchio di Sopra, Col d’Orcia, Caprili, and Pian delle Vigne. In many other samples, sapidity and fruit quality support a drinking experience that is both gastronomic and refined.
THE 2024, 2023, AND 2022 VINTAGES OF ROSSO DI MONTALCINO AT BENVENUTO BRUNELLO 2025
The quality picture must also be read in light of the three vintages being tasted. The 2022, marked by hot and dry weather, produced more concentrated wines often characterized by fruit maturity and dark spices, with tannins requiring careful management.
The 2023, with a rainy spring and climatic recovery leading up to harvest, delivers a Rosso di Montalcino of good aromatic precision, acidic tension, and fruit definition. Often floral and crisp, with fine-grained tannins and good aging potential. The 2024 vintage, finally, shows profiles characterized by freshness, fruit, and immediate drinkability. Vineyard work and harvest choices made the difference in maintaining balance and identity.
Overall, what emerges is a Rosso di Montalcino increasingly less a “second wine” and more an autonomous interpretation of the territory’s Sangiovese. A denomination that is growing in hectares and in markets, precisely because of its new identity. Capable of expressing vintage, producer’s hand, and the vocation of Montalcino’s different areas with a clarity that, in many cases, does not sacrifice depth and ambition.
ROSSO DI MONTALCINO SCORES 2024, 2023, 2022 | BENVENUTO BRUNELLO 2025
BEST ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2024
| WINERY | ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2024 | SCORE |
| Aminta – Famiglia Cecchi | 2024 | 90 |
| Aminta – Famiglia Cecchi | Gli Amici 2024 | 89 |
| Argiano | 2024 | 92 |
| Banfi | Castello Banfi 2024 | 88 |
| Bottega | 2024 | 88 |
| Camigliano | 2024 | 89 |
| Capanne Ricci Tenimenti Ricci | 2024 | 87 |
| Caparzo | 2024 | 88 |
| Caprili | 2024 | 92 |
| Carpineto | 2024 | 89 |
| Casanuova delle Cerbaie | 2024 | 90 |
| Castello Tricerchi | 2024 | 92 |
| Cordella | 2024 | 89 |
| Fattoria dei Barbi | 2024 | 93 |
| Fornacina | 2024 | 92 |
| Gianni Brunelli – Le Chiuse di Sotto | 2024 | 91 |
| Il Palazzone | Due Fratelli 2024 | 89 |
| Innocenti | 2024 | 87 |
| La Magia | 2024 | 90 |
| La Palazzetta | 2024 | 90 |
| Le Macioche – Famiglia Cotarella | 2024 | 90 |
| Mocali | 2024 | 92 |
| Patrizia Cencioni | 2024 | 91 |
| Pian delle Querci | 2024 | 90 |
| Pian delle Vigne | 2024 | 92 |
| Pietroso | 2024 | 93 |
| Piombaia | 2024 | 91 |
| Podere la Vigna | 2024 | 90 |
| Poggio alle Forche | 2024 | 90 |
| Poggio Rubino | 2024 | 88 |
| Querce Bettina | 2024 | 89 |
| Quercecchio | 2024 | 88 |
| Rabissi | 2024 | 89 |
| Renieri | 2024 | 90 |
| Sesti | 2024 | 90 |
| Tiezzi | Vigna Poggio Cerrino 2024 | 90 |
| Uccelliera | 2024 | 89 |
| Villa al Cortile | 2024 | 88 |
| Villa i Cipressi | 2024 | 91 |
| Villa Poggio Salvi | 2024 | 90 |
| Voliero | 2024 | 91 |
BEST ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023
| WINERY | ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023 | SCORE |
| Albatreti | 2023 | 89 |
| Banfi | Poggio alle Mura 2023 | 92 |
| Canalicchio di Sopra | 2023 | 92 |
| Capanna | 2023 | 89 |
| Cava d’Onice | 2023 | 89 |
| Chiusa Grossa | 2023 | 89 |
| Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona | 2023 | 90 |
| Col di Lamo | 2023 | 90 |
| Col d’Orcia | 2023 | 92 |
| Collemattoni | 2023 | 91 |
| Corte Pavone – Loacker Wine Estates – | 2023 | 91 |
| Donatella Cinelli Colombini | 2023 | 93 |
| Fanti | 2023 | 93 |
| Ferrero | 2023 | 92 |
| Franco Pacenti | 2023 | 92 |
| Gorelli Giuseppe | 2023 | SV |
| Il Poggione | 2023 | 91 |
| La Fortuna | 2023 | 90 |
| La Gerla | 2023 | 90 |
| La Lecciaia | 2023 | 91 |
| Le Chiuse | 2023 | 93 |
| Lisini | 2023 | Not tasted |
| Mastrojanni | 2023 | 92 |
| Palazzo | 2023 | 93 |
| Paradiso di Cacuci | 2023 | 91 |
| Podere Giardino | Le Tracce 2023 | 90 |
| Ridolfi | 2023 | 90 |
| Scopetone | 2023 | 89 |
| Tenuta San Giorgio | 2023 | 90 |
| Tenute Silvio Nardi | 2023 | 91 |
| Val di Suga | 2023 | 90 |
| Verbena | 2023 | 89 |
BEST ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2022
| WINERY | ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2022 | SCORE |
| Castiglion del Bosco | Gauggiole 2022 | 92 |
| Poggio di Sotto | 2022 | 93 |
| Terre Nere | 2022 | 90 |
| Val di Suga | Vigna Spuntali 2022 | 89 |







