2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
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The 2015 San Polo Riserva has luxurious aromas of vanilla and baking spice, with ripe and confected black raspberry and red plum. The palate is generous, with upfront fruit that gives way to savory black licorice and building tannins. It will benefit from a few years in the cellar to integrate, though it is still an approachable, open knit, and polished style. Cellar 1-5 years and drink 2025-2035. A property of Allegrini in the Veneto, San Polo is organically farmed.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The San Polo 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva (with 8,000 bottles produced) is a textured wine with hearty fruit and touches of smoked meat and spice. At its core, the wine offers dark fruit, blackberry and ripe plum. The rich fruitiness of the wine cedes to campfire ash, mahogany and furniture wax. These results are sultry and even a bit flashy, with distant background tones of teriyaki and plum sauce. The wine is fermented in cylindrical oak fermenters and aged in oak for three years. We'll see this bottle hitting the market sometime after February 2021.
The 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva from San Polo displays a refreshing mix of wild strawberries, followed by notes of sage, mint and hints of white pepper. It’s a soft and pliant wine, casting pretty red fruits and hints of spice across medium bodied textures, while forming into a more salty and austere expression toward the close. Fine tannins grip the palate, leaving hints of cranberry and inner herbal tones lingering. The 2015 Riserva will require extensive cellaring to tame its hulking structure.