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The King of Cashmere Makes Wine—How Good Is It?

Taste-testing Brunello Cucinelli’s exclusive, expensive Castello di Solomeo reds.

Tasting Brunello Cucinelli’s wine at his vineyard in Solomeo, Italy.

Photographer: Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images Europe

Italian fashion mogul Brunello Cucinelli calls Solomeo, a tiny Umbrian hilltop village not far from Perugia, his “hamlet of cashmere and harmony.”

And now it’s a hamlet of wine, too.