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Brunello di Montalcino, Gianni Brunelli 2017

RegionItaly
Subregion Italy > Tuscany > Brunello di Montalcino
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietySangiovese

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Tasting Notes

The 2017 Brunello di Montalcino is beautifully bright and stitched up with extreme focus and sharpness. Sangiovese has this gorgeous ability to show linearity and lift, but it remains elegant and tight at the same time. This wine accomplishes all of this, and that's saying a lot given the heat and drought of this vintage. The acidity is bright and the finish is long and smooth with citrusy end notes of blood orange followed by wild rose and lilac. Fruit comes from a 4.5-hectare site with sand and galestro soils. Production is exactly 15,014 bottles. Maria Laura Vacca Brunelli and her team harvested about one week early in 2017 to capture that varietal freshness. 2024-2040

96
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate, February 2022
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