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2018 Brunello di Montalcino, La Magia, Tuscany, Italy
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Sangiovese
Ready - youthful
(Drink 2024 - 2046)
- Walter Speller
- 17+/20
- Eric Guido
- 92/100
- Monica Larner
- 92/100
- Audrey Frick
- 93/100
- James Suckling
- 94/100
Product: 20181165982
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Description
This comes from a selection of low-yielding old vines, and a blend of soils and altitudes. After selection, the stunning quality at harvest allowed for a long, 40-day maceration, giving tannic complexity, depth and texture. The wine has seen 36 months in used tonneau and in barrique (a third of them new), which rendered some sweet polish to accompany the terroir-driven profile of this Sangiovese.
This is a bright, heady, perfumed Brunello, richer than many other wines of the vintage. It offers spice, wild herbs, blood orange and smoky pancetta on the nose. The palate is gleaming, composed of crystalline fruit quality, alongside notes of savoury spices, red cherry and rose tea, with a delicate red colour. The palate is propelled by vivid mineral freshness and a fleshy peachy softness, but framed by fine earthy tannins.
Drink 2024 - 2038
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 14.5%
Maturity Ready - youthful
(2024 - 2046)
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer La Màgia
Critics reviews
Walter Speller 17+/20
Deep, lustrous ruby. Exotic spice on a compact sour-cherry nose. Subtle but very closed. Purity of fruit on the palate that is not open yet but with impressive depth. Lots of long, chewy tannins complement the whole. Can be approached but should be decanted. Better to give it another year.
Drink 2024 - 2033
Eric Guido 92/100
The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino is smoky in the glass, with a blend of crushed rocks and savory spice accentuating dried black cherries. It is soft and round in feel, energized by juicy acidity that propels its mineral-tinged red fruits across the palate. A coating of fine tannins is left to reside, along with violet inner florals and sweet spice, through the long and dramatic finale. Finding a balance of potent fruit and structure is often one of the challenges of the 2018 vintage, yet La Magia pulled it off without a hitch.
Drink 2024 - 2031
Monica Larner 92/100
The organic La Magia 2018 Brunello di Montalcino is a subdued and elegant expression with a very genuine quality that is ultimately the wine's biggest asset. You taste the skin and the pulp of the Sangiovese grape in this wine that remains very true to the variety. Wild cherry, cassis and crushed limestone give the wine plenty of linearity and freshness. Elements of the bouquet remind you of a natural wine. Production is 38,000 bottles.
Fabian Schwarz's La Magia has been an organic farm since 2012. The main body of vines measures 15 hectares and is registered to Brunello. The site enjoys beautiful southeast exposures with silt, clay and stones at a breezy 400 to 450 meters in elevation. The estate replanted a section of its Vigna Casisano last year. They also started production of a new Vermentino white wine, but alas, they skipped over production of their 2017 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva due to the hot and dry vintage conditions.
Drink 2025 - 2038
Audrey Frick 93/100
The 2018 Brunello Di Montalcino is a more potent and amplified wine, with luxurious aromas of toasted cedar, dark mineral earth, menthol, and black cherry liqueur. It is full through the palate, with ripe mouth-coating fruit layering around fine ripe tannins and a long-lasting finish. Its ripe black fruit of berries and plum intertwines with incense and leather. This is a solid and wonderful wine to cellar for a few years.
Drink 2026 - 2040
James Suckling 94/100
Lovely purity of fruit here with plums, cherries, liquorice, tomato leaves and hibiscus. It’s full-bodied, all in balance, with a firm and fine tannin frame and seamless, creamy texture. Focused. More mineral and tight in the finish. From organically grown grapes.
Better after 2025
About this wine
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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