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2006 Mocali Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

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January 21, 2024 - $61

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RATINGS

94Wine Enthusiast

This Brunello delivers an intense and complex bouquet featuring beautifully integrated aromas of dark fruit, spice, leather and tobacco.

93+ Vinous / IWC

...flows across the palate with notable finesse...mpresses for its silkiness and polish. Deceptively medium in body, the wine has plenty of underlying depth and serious structure. Sweet red cherries, tobacco, dried flowers and sweet herbs are layered into the finish.

93Stephen Tanzer

Sexy, Burgundian nose suggests cherry, raspberry, herbs, underbrush, rose petal and sandalwood. Silky-sweet and fine-grained, with an enticing sappy quality to the saline red fruit flavors. Concentrated, tactile and alive, showing the solid integrated acidity of the vintage's better examples. Finishes with suave tannins, a note of candied raspberry and enticing lingering perfume.

92James Suckling

A solid wine with lots of fruit as well as ripe tannins and vanilla. Full body, with a velvety texture and a long intense finish. Lovely depth of fruit too.

90Wine Spectator

Rich, with beef broth, soy and underbrush notes surrounding a core of plum. Broad and muscular, with dense tannins underneath. Fine length.

15Jancis Robinson

PRODUCER

Mocali

Mocali is a 35-acre estate in Montalcino that was acquired by the Ciacci family in the 1950s. It is still run by the Ciacci family and produces about 90,000 bottles of Brunello annually. Wine Advocate has often awarded the estate’s wines ratings in the low-90s and the journal described a 2008 Brunello as “a gorgeous, beautifully balanced wine from start to finish. Hints of sweet tobacco and dried flowers add perfume on the mid-weight, inviting 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.