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2016 Castiglion del Bosco Brunello di Montalcino

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March 3, 2024 - $57

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RATINGS

99James Suckling

...complexity and beauty to this is really something with cherry, walnut, tobacco and cigar-box character. Sweet cherries. It's full-bodied and deep with super intensity and power. Layered and beautiful. Really refined tannins.

95Vinous / IWC

...crushed raspberries, lavender and clove. Further depths are found with each swirl, adding mentholated herbs and flowery undergrowth...dense and dark-fruited, enveloping the palate with notes of black cherry, plum, exotic savory spice and minerals.

94The Wine Advocate

...soft cherry, blackberry, tilled earth and a touch of sweet spice...tannins are more evident...

17.5Jancis Robinson

Fragrant cherry and raspberry nose...oriental spice and cinnamon bark. Sweetly concentrated and then tangy cherry fruit...focused and long. Bags of grainy tannins on the finish...

REGION

Italy, Tuscany, Brunello di Montalcino

Brunello di Montalcino is regarded as one of Italy’s best appellations. Located in south central Tuscany below Chianti, the wines of Brunello di Montalcino DOCG are made of a Sangiovese clone called “brunello,” which means “little dark one,” a reference to the brown tones in the skin of the grape. Unlike some Tuscan appellations that allow other grapes to be blended with Sangiovese, Brunello di Montalcino is entirely Sangiovese. Montalcino itself is a picturesque, hill-top town not especially well known for wine production until the mid-19th century, when a local vineyard owner isolated the brunello clone and planted it. Other growers followed suit. Nevertheless it wasn’t until 1970s that wine enthusiasts started paying attention to Brunello di Montalcino, which by then was becoming an outstanding wine. Today there are 120 estates in the DOCG, up from about 25 estates in 1975. Brunellos in general are bigger, darker, more tannic and more powerful wines than Chiantis or most other Sangioveses. By law they must be aged for four years, and two of those years must be in wooden barrels.