100% Sangiovese. Until a few years ago, this half-hectare of bush-trained vines went into Fonterenza's Rosso di Montalcino; planted in 2005, this pruning style led to smaller berries, lower yields and more concentrated and complex wine, which warranted its own separate bottling eventually. The farming is certified-biodynamic. The vines grow in crumbly galestro (schistous clay) soils. They are harvested and even destemmed by hand, then gently pressed and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in open-top vats. The maceration is around 16 days. The wine is aged in 15-hectoliter Slavonian oak botti and cement for 26 months and bottled unfiltered. It could be bottled as a Rosso di Montalcino, but Fonterenza chose the IGT classification to distinguish "Alberello" from their classic Rosso bottling.