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2016 Brunello di Montalcino, Scopetone, Tuscany, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sangiovese
Ready - youthful (Drink 2022 - 2044)
James Suckling
92/100
Eric Guido
93/100
Product: 20161105139

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2016 Brunello di Montalcino, Scopetone, Tuscany, Italy

Description

From Scopetone’s original vineyards, this is a sleeping beauty. It’s matured in large oak casks for three years, followed by 12 months in cement, allowing the tannins to smooth out. The results are astonishing: the wine is composed and feels glossy, but has a lightness of touch. It combines the very best of Sangiovese: power, purity and perfume.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Alcohol % 14%
Maturity Ready - youthful (2022 - 2044)
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer Scopetone, Tuscany

Critics reviews

James Suckling 92/100
Sweet berries and flowers with fruit-tea and leather undertones. Medium-bodied with fine tannins that are polished and layered. Elegant and delicate. Drink after 2022.
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Nov 2020)
Eric Guido 93/100
The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino dazzles with a display of sour cherries, sage and clove with hints of cedar, licorice and flowery undergrowth. The balance here is spot-on, as silky textures give way to ripe red berries offset by tactile minerals, sour citrus and brisk acids which add lift and cooling freshness. Its tannins mount steadily toward the close in a classically dry and structured expression under an air of inner florals. What a beautifully pure expression of Sangiovese.
Eric Guido, Vinous.com (Nov 2020)

About this wine

Brunello di Montalcino

Brunello di Montalcino

Along with Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino is Tuscany's most famous DOCG and its boldest expression of the Sangiovese grape. Located 30 miles south of Siena, its 2,000 hectares of vines are hemmed in by the Orcia, Asso and Ombrone valleys. Brunello is the local name for the Sangiovese Grosso clone from which Brunello di Montalcino should be made in its entirety. The wine cannot be released for sale until five years after the harvest.
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