Stella di Campalto farms Podere San Giuseppe at the southeastern edge of Montalcino, outside Castelnuovo dell'Abate, where the appellation falls away toward the Orcia river and the Val d'Orcia opens out below. Her family bought the property in 1992, derelict at the time, and she has run the vineyards and the cellar ever since. She converted to certified organic farming in 1996, began working biodynamically in 2002, and earned Demeter certification in 2005. Of the estate's thirteen and a half hectares, only about five and a half are planted; the rest is forest and olive trees. The cellar moves fruit by gravity across three levels. Everything is picked by hand, fermented parcel by parcel with indigenous yeasts, and bottled without fining or filtration. Nothing leaves San Giuseppe until Stella judges it ready, which is routinely years later than the appellation requires.

Rosa Amore belongs to the first group of single-parcel bottlings Stella released, beginning with the 2016 vintage; until then San Giuseppe made one Brunello and, in certain years, a Riserva. Her vines run along a single stretch of hillside broken into six plots between roughly 240 and 335 meters, most of them facing south on the warm southeastern shoulder of the zone. She logged 2016 in the estate's records as La limpidezza, clarity, for a year she found both rich and bright. The wine spent forty-three months in wood and a minimum of sixty-four months in bottle before release, close to a decade between harvest and market. It is the only Stella di Campalto wine Yes Society was able to secure this year.

After ten years the fruit sits richer in the glass, undiminished. Sour cherry and dried strawberry come first, followed by blood orange peel, rose petal, wild fennel, and a trace of sandalwood, with something ferrous underneath that reads as much of the hillside as of the grape. The tannins are fine and powdery, the acidity poignant, and the finish tapering slowly toward sea salt and crushed mountain mint. Drink 2026 through 2046.