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2015 Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Pianrosso Riserva

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March 24, 2024 - $140

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RATINGS

100James Suckling

The opulence of fruit and complexity of earth, meat, mushroom and cedar is breathtaking. It’s full-bodied, deep and powerful with so much intensity and depth.

97The Wine Advocate

...fine and delicate wine that cleverly delivers the intensity of the vintage but without the heaviness or the ripeness... Dark cherry fruit, cassis, plum, lavender and campfire ash set the tone.

97Wine Spectator

There’s a bright edge to this red, harnessing the cherry, strawberry, rosehip, mineral and tobacco flavors that build on the palate to a long finish. Displays terrific energy and balance, with an aftertaste that echoes both fruit and savory elements.

97Wine Enthusiast

Fragrant, full bodied and refined, this opens with aromas of new leather vanilla, baked plum and camphor. The palate shows an enviable combination of structure, finesse and length, doling out raspberry jam, ripe black cherry, vanilla and licorice enveloped in firm, refined tannins.

94Vinous / IWC

...gains in richness, adding notes of plum sauce, clove and sage...pleasantly ripe in nature and silky-smooth in feel, as a wave of elegant black fruits tinged with balsam herbs washes across the palate with ease, leaving salty minerals and a coating of fine tannin in its wake.

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.