
Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
2016
Region
Italy › Toscana › Brunello di Montalcino DOCG
Type
red · still
Grapes
Sangiovese
Alcohol
14%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes
Blood sausage, flowers, dried strawberry, tea. The tannin is still green, but there's a certain delicacy - it drinks beautifully. Tasty, complex, multilayered. Yet it feels too young still, and lacks the depth you'd want - very fruit-forward rather than tertiary. Beautiful nonetheless. Brunello 2016 - a firm, chewy vintage with walnut and truffle character waiting underneath. Should have more to give with time.
About
Poggiarellino is a small, traditional estate in Montalcino. 100% Sangiovese, exclusively from their own vineyards, treated with traditional methods only. Green-harvested and further selected at picking. Natural fermentation, aged four and a half years in medium-tonnage oak barrels (max 3,000L). One year bottle ageing. Unfiltered. 14% alcohol. 2,500 bottles produced. Bottled August 2020.