2020 Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve
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The 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino La Pieve has a jeweled red color and offers a fabulous, pure nose of raspberry candies, roses, blood orange, oregano, and dried herbs. Medium-bodied, it offers a linear feel with compact ripeness, refined, coiled tannins, mouthwatering saltiness, and a great long and even finish. Very well done, it's only going to improve if given the chance in the cellar, but it sure is delicious and appealing now. Drink over the coming 15 or more years.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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The La Gerla 2020 Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve is different from the village bottling, especially in terms of mouthfeel. The tannins feel a bit stronger and are on the dry side in this single-vineyard selection. However, the bouquet offers richer aromatic intensity, with black and purple fruits as the protagonists. This is a bigger wine for sure, but I would still recommend a medium-term drinking window for this vintage.
Just mid ruby with orange tinges. Firm, compact cherry nose with balsamic, savoury-spice hints. Focused pure cherry, with fresh acidity and the perfect dose of gravelly tannins. Just a suggestion of oak on the finish and skilfully done. Hedonistic. (WS)
The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino La Pieve is youthfully coy in the glass, slowly evolving with notes of dried violets, lavender, nuances of foreign spice and black cherries. This displays sleek and racy red and blue fruits that ride a wave of brisk acidity as pretty inner florals amass toward the close. It tapers off gently tannic and with medium weight, leaving hints of licorice and tart blackberry to fade slowly.