Castiglion del Bosco Rosso di Montalcino Gauggiole 2022 Tuscany Red Wine

Rosso di Montalcino is a name to read closely, because Montalcino names one specific municipality in Tuscany, not the wider region around it. Our regional research places it between the sea and the central Apennines, and describes many small pockets of climate there rather than one.

We do not have a shopper rating for this wine, so the place and the maker carry the description.

Brunello di Montalcino and Rosso di Montalcino are separate designations, and our regional research treats them as genuinely different: they share the town's old boundary and the Sangiovese grape, but the rules behind each are not the same. If you find this bottle next to a Brunello and wonder how they relate, that is the difference to keep in mind. In our September 2026 checks, one store priced it at $49.99.

Another store had it lower, at $44.99, in those same September 2026 checks. Castiglion del Bosco says its estate lies within the Val d'Orcia World Heritage Site at Montalcino, and that it has been a founding member of the Brunello di Montalcino producers' consortium since 1967.

Castiglion del Bosco's vineyard page names Gauggiole specifically: a 20-hectare section in the northern part of the estate, below the villa, with a mix of clay and stone soil that the estate says gives a balance of warmth and cool suited to bringing out Sangiovese's fruitier aromatics. The vineyard is one of two main sections at the estate; the larger, 42-hectare Capanna section, higher up the ridge, is registered entirely for Brunello di Montalcino, while Gauggiole's fruit goes into this Rosso, which the estate describes as “fresh and immediately drinkable with pleasant fruitiness,” the producer's words. All 62 hectares of estate vineyard, on a property Castiglion del Bosco puts at 2,000 hectares total, are planted to Sangiovese alone.

Our call: reach for this if named-vineyard detail matters to you; Castiglion del Bosco identifies the exact 20-hectare Gauggiole section behind the wine, its soil, and its place within the estate's Sangiovese-only vineyards, and the estate has been a founding member of the Brunello di Montalcino producers' consortium since 1967. Pass if you want the vintage on the shelf confirmed against the producer's own account: the estate's current listings show a 2023 release of this same cru, not the 2022 on our record, and no shopper rating has come in to weigh either way.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.