2016 Brunello di Montalcino
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Tasting notes
Elegant and refined, the wine captures the striking aromatics of the vintage. The nose is especially fine, with notes of black cherry, red fruit, rose and a light touch of sweet liquorice, with smoke and a slight menthol note emerging with air. On the palate the fruit is well balanced and harmonious, backed by fantastic acidity and an overriding purity of fruit. It has great impact in the mouth, more elegant than overbearing – with a surprising softness that is harnessed by refined tannins. For its detail and ‘lightness of being’, this is a Brunello for the Burgundy lover.
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The Wine Advocate
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Cerbaiona's Brunello di Montalcino is a nuanced and delicate wine that offers ample power, intensity and length. What the wine does best is paint a portrait of the grape in its most pure and naked state. It offers crisp outlines with loads of wild berry, blue flower and moist earth on the inside. That balanced ensemble of flavors adds to the long and polished persistence you feel in the mouth. Give this wine another 10 years of aging to best appreciate its slow evolution and budding complexity.
About the producer
A cult address for many Italian fine wine lovers, Cerbaiona is one of Montalcino’s top estates. The site has long been identified as special, but it was Diego Molinari who established its reputation. Today, Matthew Fioretti is at the helm, bringing the estate into the modern era.